“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldHeartCountryStatesHelpingFightingUnitedEnemyUnited StatesDemocracyProgressWorstMastersKingsCivilizationLaborBlindDollarsWorkersDumbDeafBourgeoisWorst Enemy Author:Alexander Berkman
“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.” PeopleAmericaBlackDemocracyRightsSlaveryWorkersAgendasBlack PeopleSplitsWomens RightsFrederick Douglas Author:Cornel West
“Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.” KnowsTryingWellsDoeRunningJobsDemocracyGreaterHigherInvestmentWorkersRegionsSteelPitsClosureIdioticRailwayRedundancyBamboozle Author:Anthony Crosland
“If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.” IfsDemocracyLosingLaborUnionsWorkersOrganizedPerilLabor UnionLabor Movement Author:Dolores Huerta
“A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.” ChildrenSelfReasonHoursExistenceDemocracyEconomicLaborWorkersJustificationWagesStretchingChild LaborSerfs Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I would love to have the endorsement of every progressive organization in America. We're very proud to have received recently the endorsement of MoveOn.org. We've received the endorsement Democracy for America. These are grassroots organizations representing millions of workers.” AmericaMillionsDemocracyProudOrganizationWorkersProgressiveRepresentingEndorsementsGrassroots Author:Bernie Sanders
“We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.” StrongSocialDemocracyShareSecurityTaxesUnionsWesternWorkersProfitIncomeOwnersContractsTemperSocial SecurityCompensationIncome TaxBusiness OwnersEquitableSocial Contract Author:John Shelby Spong
“Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.” PeopleImportantClassDemocracyMiddleProductsLaborWorkersPreservesOrganizedContributionMiddle ClassOur SocietyRecognizingConnectingOrganized Labor Author:Dolores Huerta
“We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.” PeopleNeedsTogetherAttentionDemocracyWorkersSymbolsPay AttentionFarmsBells Author:Dolores Huerta
“The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.” WorldKindTwoWarStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyMajorsUnionsWorkersPopulationScalesEnormousAll KindsPropagandaWar Of The WorldsTargetFactoriesOffensiveInterventionScholarshipSecond World WarTakeoversGovernment Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky