Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day . . . is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed ... that the workers of our day lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So long as there is one person who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional 'public morals experts' in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. - Samuel Gompers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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