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Samuel Gompers Quote

“What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more... opportunities to cultivate our better natures.”
―Samuel Gompers

Source/Notes:
Quoted in Mantsios, Gregory. A New Labor Movement for the New Century. Florence, Ky.: Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 51.

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What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more... opportunities to cultivate our better natures. - Samuel Gompers

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―Hannah Arendt

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―Denis Waitley

“Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.”
―Martin Luther

“Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.”
―Lord Byron

Source/Notes:
Hours of Idleness (1807), Imitated from Catullus

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”
―Edward Young

Source/Notes:
Night Thoughts (1742-1745)

Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers

Born: January 27, 1850

Died: December 13, 1924 (aged 74)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

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

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