Workers Quotes

A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

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.

While we are mindful of the shocking fact that less than one-half of all non-white workers are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, we do not speak for Negro workers only. A living wage should be the right of all working Americans, and this is what we wish to urge upon our Congressmen and Senators as they now prepare to deal with this legislation.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past