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
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 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
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
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 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
“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 labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“Well, it's true that the anarchist vision in just about all its varieties has looked forward to dismantling state power―and personally I… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
“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
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
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
