Class Quote by Karl Marx

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

— Friedrich Engels

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their…

— Walter Lippmann

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

— Danny Glover

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

— Pope Francis

The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious…

— Noam Chomsky

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

— Vladimir Lenin

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

— Jonah Goldberg

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

— Duncan Green

I feel unions are important because they built the middle class, and they can preserve the middle class.

— Marty Walsh

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian…

— Richard Llewellyn

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting…

— Eugene V. Debs