Able Quote by Vladimir Lenin

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

— Danny Glover

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

— Karl Marx

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

— Bruce Springsteen

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

— Henry George

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

— Pope Francis

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an…

— Leon Jouhaux

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting…

— Eugene V. Debs

“The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.”

— Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

— Friedrich Engels

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

— Charles Kennedy