Labor Movement Quotes
- It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family… — Barack Obama
- Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia,… — Eugene V. Debs
- The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips
- The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character,… — Mary Harris Jones
- Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation… — Hjalmar Branting
- 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