Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a… — Noam Chomsky
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that… — Jeffrey Sachs
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as… — Eugene V. Debs
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it… — Eugene V. Debs
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,… — Honore de Balzac
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis
If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost,… — Lou Dobbs
The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply… — Lou Dobbs
If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but… — Joseph James Ettor
What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit,… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class… — Bill Haywood
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. — John L. Lewis
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity… — Peter J. McGuire
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people… — George Meany
Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes. — George Meany
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum… — Aruna Roy
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value… — Juan Somavia
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of… — Juan Somavia
We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And… — Andy Stern
Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by… — Ernest Mandel

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