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Samuel Gompers

Activist United States 1850–1924

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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel Gompers
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers
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
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
Samuel Gompers
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