a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
[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 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
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
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
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
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
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
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
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
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
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
“But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of States' Rights by the national Democratic Party—an event that occurred… — Barry M. Goldwater 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
“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
“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
... 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
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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