“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.”
Other Samuel Gompers Quotes
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 
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
Samuel Gompers
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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