Budgets Quote by Cesar Chavez

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we…

— Eric Burdon

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the…

— Chrystia Freeland

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years…

— Joseph Stalin

“BUT WHAT, really, had the People’s Party—the farmers who called themselves “Alliancemen”—asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy of forces…

— Robert A. Caro

The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for…

— Willie Nelson

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We…

— John Shelby Spong

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

— Ted Lindsay

We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be…

— Herbert Hoover

Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and…

— Cesar Chavez

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had…

— John Gould

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices…

— Henry Giroux