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Labor Quotes Database
“There's only so much they're going to invest in this. Then it's up to us to stick it out.''
Baldemar Velasquez
Farm Labor Organizing Committee leader, referring to Campbells Soup Co. during the FLOC boycott
Which says the union’s purpose is “To inculcate brotherly love and friendship among all members.”
Initiation of the Sons of Vulcan
"A fair day's pay for a fair day's work".
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Explaining why the Wages and Hours Act was needed
"Girls, we can't lose!"
Carrie Smith
One of the leaders of the 1933 Funsten Nut strike in St Louis, the subject of the new play “A Brick and a Bible”, which will be performed in February and March 2026
“Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.”
Mickey Mantle
On this date in 1961, Hard working Mickey Mantle signs a new contract with the New York Yankees making him the highest-paid player in baseball: $75,000 for the entire 1961 season.
Each of us has the power to be good or to be evil. That choice is yours and yours alone. The tragedy of our world is not that so many have chosen to be evil,
but that so few have made any choice at all.
Martin Johns
Red Bank Local, APWU
“The people in our community are being terrorized.”
Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis Police Chief
Referring to actions by federal law enforcement agents.
Socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure.
Jack London
Socialist novelist born on this date in 1876.
"A people's art is the genesis of their freedom."
Claudia Jones
“We can have individual dignity only if all have dignity.”
Clinton Jencks
The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union organizer who led New Mexico zinc miners in the strike depicted in the classic 1954 movie “Salt of the Earth,” and who died on this date in 2005.
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
Joanna Maciejewska (Ma‧cie‧jew‧ska)
Fantasy and science fiction writer
“ What does it mean to be a person? What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be flesh and blood, now in the age of AI?”
David Rovics
as Ai Tsuno