The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes. — George Meany Copy Share Image
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany Copy Share Image
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress . — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or… — Tom Latham 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
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a… — Harvey Weinstein 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
The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him… Shaking… — Cliff Asness 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
“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history… — Ronald Geigle Copy Share Image
“Jacqueline Jones argues, “Race signifies neither a biological fact, nor a primal prejudice, and it lacks the coherence of a robust political… — Steven Stoll Copy Share Image
Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more… — Erik Naggum 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
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
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
“After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers have only three possible cards… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his opinions may be coordinated as follows: "A good labor… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“A home where a woman is abused is a small-scale model of much larger oppressive systems that work in remarkably similar ways.… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Now, years later and with Carnegie’s blessing, Frick had launched his plan to further consolidate his rule over their industrial kingdom by… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. — Henry Ford 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
