Samuel Gompers Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Samuel Gompers:
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
~Samuel Gompers
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
~Samuel Gompers
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
~Samuel Gompers
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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 Gompers
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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 poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
~Samuel Gompers
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
~Samuel Gompers
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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 in the morning found inside the lion.
~Samuel Gompers
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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 direct social insurance the workers can establish.
~Samuel Gompers
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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 Gompers
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
~Samuel Gompers
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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 men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
~Samuel Gompers
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
~Samuel Gompers
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