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“The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.”

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Author:John L. Lewis

“You can't do it unless you organize.”

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Author:Samuel Gompers

“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.”

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Book:All Labor Has Dignity

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.”

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.”

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Author:Jimmy Smits

“Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.”

“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!”

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!”

“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.”

“I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.”

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Author:Haley Barbour