Labor Movement Quotes

31 quotes by 24 authors

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!… — Holly Near
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity… — Bergen Evans
With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations.… — Arlene Holt Baker
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
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains… — Dolores Huerta
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the… — A. Philip Randolph
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in… — Rose Schneiderman
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date. — William Kunstler
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go… — Andy Stern
The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common… — John F. Kennedy
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis
The labor movement was the principal force that transformeÂd misery and despair into hope and progress. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers… — Andy Stern
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for… — Andy Stern
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men… — Hubert H. Humphrey
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a… — Samuel Gompers
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Who Wrote These Labor Movement Quotes

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