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Samuel Gompers Quotes

American - Activist | January 27, 1850 - December 13, 1924

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.

Day Man Voice Devil Hands Want

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

Me You Country Liberty Show Strikes

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.

Results Labor Want More Never Still

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

People Profit Crime Worst Company

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.

Women Time Men Think Better Earth

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.

Long Wrong Achieve Right Determined

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.

Morning Lion Believe I Believe Lamb

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

People Unions Rights Organized Trade

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.

Power Reality Insurance Movement

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

Day Man Labor Living Race Dead

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

Impossible Common Common Interests

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

Children Money Race Up Ever Offered

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