Helping Quote by John L. Lewis Download Open image “The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.” — John L. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helping Labor Labor movement Labor union Labour movement Movement Organized Organized labor Principles Strong Unions Weak
[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity.” — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's the only - one thing I've learned in the labor movement is solidarity. We can only overcome the challenges if we stand together. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
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