Clear Quotes by Samuel Gompers

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and…

— Samuel Gompers

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too…

— Samuel Gompers

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…

— Samuel Gompers

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is…

— Samuel Gompers

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better…

— Samuel Gompers

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

— Samuel Gompers

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what…

— Samuel Gompers

“Great minds like a think -The Economist-”

— Samuel Gompers

So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained…

— Samuel Gompers

All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord…

— Samuel Gompers

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too…

— Samuel Gompers

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

— Samuel Gompers