In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.


Gompers, Samuel. The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18. Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, and Grace Palladino, eds. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006, p. 348.

Samuel Gompers Quotes

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be...

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be...

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be...

In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be...