Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.Samuel Gompers
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
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
So long as there is one person who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
Samuel Gompers
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
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