Labor Quote by Mike Quigley

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of…

— Andy Stern

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children,…

— John Sweeney

I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black…

— Angela Davis

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the…

— Michael Moore

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement…

— J. G. Ballard

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the…

— Michelle Alexander

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

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

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

— John Sweeney

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position…

— Rose Schneiderman

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage,…

— Barack Obama

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

— John F. Kennedy