Freedom Quote by Owen Jones

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

— Karl Liebknecht

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly,…

— Bill Shorten

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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 British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not…

— Friedrich Engels

The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for…

— Mike Quigley

“Work, thence identified as consistent, indefinite and systematic remunerative labor, foists its demands upon the employee and not the employer.”

— J. Phillip Johnson

Liberation and equality will never come from the top down but through organising from the ground up, and our Labour movement has a crucial…

— Clive Lewis

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

— John L. Lewis