#workers

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry. ↗

— James Larkin

#cannot #carry #carrying #employers #good

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods. ↗

— James Larkin

#foulest #methods #resorted #those #want

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. ↗

— Al Lewis

#carolina #down #food #i #north

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#been #challenged #conflicts #denied #faith

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#between #faces #gap #large #larger

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#awful #because #better #business #cases

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#democracy #destinies #determination #develops #direction

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#course #democracy #development #directions #finds