Age Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

[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

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

— Owen Jones

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

— Alfred Marshall

“As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”

— Erik Larson

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 labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers…

— Arthur Scargill

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

— Bob Black