The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. — Louis D. Brandeis 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 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
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie. — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The Wagner Act, or National Labor Relations Act, was passed in reaction to the Supreme Court’s voidance of NRA and its labor… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and… — Cesar Chavez 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
“Socialists have advocated numerous ways of democratizing the economy, from setting up worker cooperatives to nationalizing major industries... At the core of… — Nathan J. Robinson Copy Share Image
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
Labor union members, especially white men, are the target group for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of success in getting their… — Susan Page 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
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
