Becoming Quote by Noam Chomsky

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people…

— Alicia Garza

The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control them. They…

— Noam Chomsky

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is…

— Greg Gutfeld

The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade…

— Duncan Green

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

— Cesar Chavez

Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated.…

— Noam Chomsky

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

— Cleve Jones

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

— Cleve Jones

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

— Walt Disney

People are very independent. And what I have seen with all the unions is that you have members who, regardless of who their union…

— Lucy Flores

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

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