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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected."
"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."
"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."
"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."
"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."
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