Samuel Gompers Quotes

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

Revolution begins with one step

The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . 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.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.