Action Quote by Herbert Hoover

The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through…

— Mao Zedong

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world,…

— Lydia Polgreen

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know…

— Frances Moore Lappé

The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet…

— Jerry Brown

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help…

— Kofi Annan

“There’s a tendency for those unfamiliar with cooperatives to look down on them as the leftovers of the mainstream economy, implying that if these…

— Michael Shuman

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's…

— Noam Chomsky

“Cooperation’ sounds very altruistic, but is not always voluntary and seldom egalitarian. Most human cooperation networks have been geared towards oppression and exploitation. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be…

— Richard D. Wolff

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

— Ted Cruz

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start…

— Dolores Huerta