#working people

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#blue-collar #community #ever #grew #i

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#economic growth #generator #government #growth #people

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attitudes #corporation #distrust #ed #evidence

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#alive #america #american #american dream #care

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#better #better life #bring #democracy #dignity

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#german people #holders #liberation #over #people

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#america #american #american values #another #barack

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#agreements #bloodshed #both #both sides #courage