Samuel Gompers

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.”

“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 an...”

“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.”