Quotes that inspire us
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."
-Benjamin Franklin
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that, no man is entitled and less than that no man shall have."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"If you don't like change, you're going to hate extinction!"
-Ross Shafer, Author of "Nobody Moved the Cheese"
"The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America."
-John F. Kennedy
"Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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 wages of decent living."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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 work. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining. We demand this fraud to be stopped.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join a union of their choice."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has.
-Lane Kirkland
"It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. "
-Barack Obama
"If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do is join a union."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Benjamin Franklin
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that, no man is entitled and less than that no man shall have."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"If you don't like change, you're going to hate extinction!"
-Ross Shafer, Author of "Nobody Moved the Cheese"
"The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America."
-John F. Kennedy
"Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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 wages of decent living."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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 work. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining. We demand this fraud to be stopped.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join a union of their choice."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has.
-Lane Kirkland
"It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. "
-Barack Obama
"If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do is join a union."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt