Workers of the World Unite !!!!

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...... in all the depressing news about the state of the worker, a little inspiration. These quotes are assembled on the Mass. AFL-CIO website:


"I tell people the hell with charity, the only thing you'll get is what you're strong enough to get." -- Saul Alinsky

"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few; but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis

"Ten thousand times the labor movement has stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. But not withstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun." -- Eugene Debs

"Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people." -- Samuel Gompers

"My friends it is solidarity we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing." -- Mother Jones

"As I have said many times, and believe with all my heart, the coalition that can have the greatest impact in the struggle for human dignity here in America is that of the Negro and the forces of labor, because their fortunes are so closely intertwined." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voices proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America." -- John Lewis

"Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie - labor is fighting for a larger pie." -- Walter Reuther

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." -- FDR

"We want our tax dollars to provide a hand up for the millions of working people who live on Main Street and not a handout to a privileged band of overpaid corporate executives." -- John Sweeney


http://www.massaflcio.org/labor-quote