“The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It's the only - one thing I've learned in the labor movement is solidarity. We can only overcome the challenges if we… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and,… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden… — August Spies Copy Share Image
I've had many experiences and hold many identities, and I've done a lot of work in all these areas. All of those… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of States' Rights by the national Democratic Party—an event that occurred… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
“When the American labor movement rose up in the 1830s to demand higher wages, landed capital did not lock arms with industrial… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done -… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
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