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# Samuel Gompers

(1850–1924)   Trade Unionist

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Samuel Gompers was a trade unionist, best known for *The Samuel Gompers papers*.

## Quick Facts About Samuel Gompers

Born January 27, 1850

Died December 13, 1924

Profession Trade Unionist

Notable works The Samuel Gompers papers

## About Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers was a British-born American cigar maker and labor union leader. A key figure in American labor history, Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. He promoted thorough organization and collective bargaining in order to secure shorter hours and higher wages, which he considered the essential first steps to emancipating labor.

##  Quotes by Samuel Gompers

> [The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-working-people-know-no-country-they-are-citizens-of-the-world/)

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> [You can't do it unless you organize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/you-can-t-do-it-unless-you-organize/)

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> [The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-labor-of-a-human-being-is-not-a-commodity-or-article-of-commerce/)

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[Articles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/articles/)

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> [“Great minds like a think -The Economist-”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/great-minds-like-a-think-the-economist/)

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> [You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/you-can-t-weigh-the-soul-of-a-man-with-a-bar-of-pig-iron/)

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[Bars](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bars/)

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> [It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/it-is-impossible-for-capitalists-and-laborers-to-have-common-interests/)

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[Capitalist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalist/)

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> [No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/no-lasting-gain-has-ever-come-from-compulsion/)

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[Compulsion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/)

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> [No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/no-race-of-barbarians-ever-existed-yet-offered-up-children-for-money/)

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[Barbarians](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barbarians/)

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> [The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-worst-crime-against-working-people-is-a-company-which-fails-to/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/show-me-the-country-that-has-no-strikes-and-i-ll-show-you-the-country/)

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[Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/)

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> [Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/doing-for-people-what-they-can-and-ought-to-do-for-themselves-is-a/)

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> [Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/labor-day-is-devoted-to-no-man-living-or-dead-to-no-sect-race-or/)

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> [ So long as there is one \[person\] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/so-long-as-there-is-one-person-who-seeks-employment-and-cannot-find/)

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[Employment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/employment/)

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> [Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/where-trade-unions-are-most-firmly-organized-there-are-the-rights-of/)

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> [The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-trade-union-movement-represents-the-organized-economic-power-of/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-labor-movement-is-a-movement-of-the-working-people-for-the/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/there-may-be-here-and-there-a-worker-who-for-certain-reasons/)

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> [There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/there-are-such-wonderful-possibilities-in-the-life-of-each-man-and/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-periods-of-unemployment-accompanying-depression-in-the-business/)

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> [One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/one-fact-stands-out-in-bold-relief-in-the-history-of-man-s-attempts/)

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> [Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/workingmen-are-at-the-foundation-of-society-show-me-that-product-of/)

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> [Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/do-i-believe-in-arbitration-i-do-but-not-in-arbitration-between-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/so-long-as-we-have-held-fast-to-voluntary-principles-and-have-been/)

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[Aim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aim/)

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> [Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/why-should-the-wealth-of-the-country-be-stored-in-banks-and-elevators/)

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> [Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/doing-for-people-what-they-can-and-ought-to-do-for-themselves-is-a-2/)

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[Analysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analysis/)

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> [In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/in-many-instances-the-conduct-of-colored-workmen-and-those-who-have/)

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[Asking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asking/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/we-will-stand-by-our-friends-and-administer-a-stinging-rebuke-to-men/)

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[Cards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cards/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/what-does-labor-want-we-want-more-schoolhouses-and-less-jails-more-2/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/our-mission-has-been-the-protection-of-the-wage-worker-now-to/)

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[Conditions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conditions/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/w-z-foster-head-of-the-american-communist-party-who-had-no-money-went/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/there-is-not-a-right-too-long-denied-to-which-we-do-not-aspire-in/)

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[Abolish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abolish/)

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> [Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/our-movement-is-of-the-working-people-for-the-working-people-by-the/)

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[Abolish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abolish/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/what-does-labor-want-we-want-more-schoolhouses-and-less-jails-more/)

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> [The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-man-who-has-his-millions-will-want-everything-he-can-lay-his/)

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[Cents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cents/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/time-is-the-most-valuable-thing-on-earth-time-to-think-time-to-act/)

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[Citizens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/citizens/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/all-other-holidays-are-in-a-more-or-less-degree-connected-with/)

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[Battle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/)

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> [We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/we-do-want-more-and-when-it-becomes-more-we-shall-still-want-more-and/)

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[Becomes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/becomes/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/to-be-free-the-workers-must-have-choice-to-have-choice-they-must/)

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[Choice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choice/)

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> [The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-freedom-of-speech-and-the-freedom-of-the-press-have-not-been/)

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[Accepted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accepted/)

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## Samuel Gompers by topic

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