Samuel Gompers Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Samuel Gompers quotes and sayings (activist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.”
“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.”
“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.”
“Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”
“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.”
“No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.”
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