What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor.… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
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