In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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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.
SAMUEL GOMPERS[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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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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere 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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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERSIt is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
SAMUEL GOMPERSYou can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
SAMUEL GOMPERSYou can’t do it unless you organize.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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