Faults Quote by Mother Jones

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and…

— Samuel Gompers

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and…

— Samuel Gompers

“Hoffa and Brennan formed a trucking company called Test Fleet. The “brains” and his partner put that company in their wives’ maiden names. Test…

— Charles Brandt

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to…

— Harry Bridges

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

— George Meany

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby…

— George Meany

Labor # Unions are the leading force for # democratization and # progress .

— Noam Chomsky

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table…

— Walter Reuther

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

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

— Jimmy Carter

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

— Walter Reuther