Samuel Gompers Quotes

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  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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• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  Samuel Gompers

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  Tags in Living, Day, Labor, Man

• No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

  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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• 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.

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  Tags in Time, Earth

• 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

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Trade

• 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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  Tags in Become, More

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  Samuel Gompers

  Topics in Country

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• 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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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  Samuel Gompers

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  Tags in Trade

• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Solidarity, Greed, Dreams, Labor

• You can’t do it unless you organize.

  Samuel Gompers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

Samuel Gompers (14)

Birth:	27th January, 1850
Death:	13th December, 1924
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Union Leader

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