LABOR QUOTES:

“With all of their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing character in men, than any other association of men.”……Clarence Darrow, Famous Trial Lawyer. 1857-1938

“If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts“……Molly Ivins, columnist, political commentator and member of the Texas Democracy Foundation 1944-2007

“We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools“……Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, political activist and British minister. 1929-1968

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it to themselves”…..Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO from 1979-1995.

“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice”…….Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth President. Held office 1953-1961

“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor”……Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. 1867-1959

“It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions”…..Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President. Held office 1933-1945

“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people”….Cesar Chavez, farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist. Mr. Chavez also co-founded the National Farm Workers Association which later became the United Farm, Workers. 1927-1993

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails: more books and less arsenals: more learning and less vice: more leisure and less greed: more justice and less revenge: in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright”…….Samuel Gompers, labor leader and founder of AF. He served as president of the AFL for 38 years! 1850-1924

“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as ‘right to work’. It provides no ‘rights’ and no ‘works’. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining….We demand this fraud be stopped”……..Martin Luther King Jr.

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capita, and deserves much the higher consideration”……Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President. Held office 1861-1865.

“Every advance in this half-century--Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another--came with the support and leadership of American Labor”…..Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President. Held office 1977-1981.

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