American people Quote by Wendell Phillips

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

— John L. Lewis

“The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity.”

— Charles Brandt

“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if…

— Frank Tannenbaum

Labor is a person who born for a purpose but live his whole life just to make someone else life successful.

— Nishan Panwar

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

— J. G. Holland

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

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“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

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

— Frederick William Faber

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard