Labor Quote by Rose Schneiderman Download Open image “there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.” — Rose Schneiderman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Labor Labor movement Movement Trade Trade unions Unions
There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard. — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image