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Samuel Gompers

"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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Amber Hurdle

"America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values."

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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

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Amber Hurdle

"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."

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Amber Hurdle

"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."

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Amber Hurdle

"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers."

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Amber Hurdle

"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."

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

Nation

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

People

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Samuel Gompers
"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

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

Money

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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."

Action

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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."

Social Issues

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

People

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

Social Issues

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Samuel Gompers
"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."

Labor

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Samuel Gompers
"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."

Time

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