46 Quotes by 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.

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.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

We don't love to work only, ... The Samuel Gompers Papers.

When a man puts a pistol to my head and tells me to deliver, there is no arbitration.

The day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed ... that the workers of our day lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it.

W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...