Act Quote by Robert Dallek

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for…

— Kshama Sawant

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the…

— James Surowiecki

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

— Caroline Lucas

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal,…

— Mitch McConnell

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red…

— Noam Chomsky

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and…

— H. L. Mencken

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush…

— Henry Giroux

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 fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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