#workers

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#becomes #between #city #divided #downtown

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

#joint #language #manual #ought #poets

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#freedom #jobs #mean #support #their

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy. ↗

— David Plouffe

#class #doing #economy #europe #facing

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#courage #every #fight #his #i

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#benefits #cut #fine #fine print #future

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#bourgeois #five #hundred #millions #periodically