Samuel Gompers Quotes

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

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 worst crime against working people is a company that 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.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

The history of labor is littered with the skeletons of organizations done to death because of hasty strikes gone into, for the best of reasons but unprepared

Strikes have their evils but they have their good points also, and with proper management, with proper organization, strikes do generally result to the advantage of labor

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

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

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment