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“Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.”

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“In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.”

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Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.”

“We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes.”

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Author:Cesar Chavez

“...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.”

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”

“We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.”

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Book:The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future

Source: The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future

“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.”

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Book:The papers: The chief of staff

Source: The papers: The chief of staff

“Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.”

“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.”

“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.”

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Author:Thomas R. Donahue

“The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.”

“The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.”

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Book:The Thomas Sowell Reader

Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader

“The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they become powerless. The strike is therefore not a breakdown of collective bargaining-it is the indispensable cornerstone of that process.”

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Author:Paul Clark

“The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.”

“All that harms labor is treason to America.”

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Book:Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

“I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his tactics are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.”

“Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.”

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