No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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