The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing. — 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 major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. — Noam Chomsky 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 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
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 labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper! — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. — 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
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
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 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
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
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a… — Samuel Gompers 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
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
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that… — Harry Belafonte 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
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
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
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
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
