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
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 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
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
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans 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
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
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
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old… — Chris Hedges 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral… — Arlene Holt Baker Copy Share Image
Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper! — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 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 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
“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
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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