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Author and Chapter Title...
If hard work were such a wonderful thing,
surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
— Lane Kirkland, This Working Life
On the evening bus, the tired, pinched faces of
young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell
us more than we care to know.
— Studs Terkel, This Working Life
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
— Frederick Douglass, Strife and Strike
People didn’t elect me to this job to be the master of ceremonies. People don’t want Bert Parks to run the union; they want the Ayatollah Khomeini.
— Domenic Bozzotto, Organizing and Unions
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
— Cesar Chavez, Civil Rights
When people ask me, "Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.
— Thomas Geoghegan, The Law
If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat’s food.
— Congressman William Clay, Public Employment
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
— Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, The Economics
Politics is the science of who gets what, when and why.
— Sidney Hillman, Politics
In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Law
Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation for freeloaders.
— Gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan, Unemployment
There are some men who, in a 50-50 proposition, insist on getting the hyphen, too.
— Lawrence J. Peter, Team Concept
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.
— President Jimmy Carter, Civil Rights
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
— Wendell Phillips, Voices for Labor
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