#workers

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

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. ↗

— John Sweeney

#goes #i #i think #labor #labor movement

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#back #bravo #call #carson #co-workers

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#cheap #continue #famine #her #human

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#calling #concrete #did #failed #giving

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#best #change #day #government #had

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work. ↗

— Andy Stern

#change #country #enough #group #having

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. ↗

— Andy Stern

#deteriorating #economic #general #i #particularly

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. ↗

— Andy Stern

#any #bargain #common #divides #each