The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already… — Frank Tannenbaum Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
All of the youth ferment on campuses is a very good thing. Lots of people are being permanently transformed and will do… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
“The carnival of carnage that takes place every day, month and year in the realm of industry; the thousands of useful lives… — D. Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers have only three possible cards… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Now, years later and with Carnegie’s blessing, Frick had launched his plan to further consolidate his rule over their industrial kingdom by… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“A home where a woman is abused is a small-scale model of much larger oppressive systems that work in remarkably similar ways.… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his opinions may be coordinated as follows: "A good labor… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress . — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes. — George Meany Copy Share Image
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany Copy Share Image
