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Samuel Gompers [1850-1924] American
Rank: 102
Activist, Labor Union Leader


Samuel Gompers was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924. 

Morning, Power, Time



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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
101
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
102
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
103
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.
104
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. Morning
105
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
106
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
107
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
108
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.
109
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
110
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.
111
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
112

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