The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 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
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor… — John L. Lewis 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
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
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“new studies increasingly emphasized that for women, African Americans, and other workers excluded from the early labor movement, Christianity was often the… — Heath W Carter Copy Share Image
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs 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
“The next year, Kroger refused to negotiate a new contract, and Hoffa’s victory was short-lived. But on the strength of his stand… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“As I wrote in Still Broken, many factors contributed to the failure of past reform efforts.11 They include that paranoid “political culture”… — Stephen Davidson Copy Share Image
“The farm labor movement saw him as a racist. He seemed to delight in the most outrageous snubs. Farm labor organizer Cesar… — Jana Bommersbach Copy Share Image
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands. — Mother Jones 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
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
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a… — Samuel Gompers 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
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
![“The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f30/noam-chomsky-42_barack_the-community-itself-didn-t-support-the_1963103.jpg)
