Samuel Gompers

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

— Samuel Gompers

#most #organized #people #respected #rights

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

— Samuel Gompers

#i #liberty #me #show #strikes

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#company #crime #fails #operate #people

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

#achieve #aspire #denied #determined #endured

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

#cease #demand #labor #more #never

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

— 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

#economic #economic power #establish #insurance #most

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

— Samuel Gompers

#common #common interests #impossible #interests #laborers