Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by…

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby…

— George Meany

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

— Jimmy Carter

The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in…

— Pope Paul VI

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures,…

— John F. Kennedy

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them…

— John F. Kennedy

One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

— Molly Ivins

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden,…

— A. Philip Randolph

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

— Walter Reuther

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Noam Chomsky

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children,…

— John Sweeney

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

— Clarence Darrow