Trade Unionists Quotes by Samuel Gompers

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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…

Samuel Gompers

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

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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…

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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…

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

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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

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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…

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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, we have sustained…

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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…

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

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

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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

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