“This isn’t about safety—it’s about fear. When immigration enforcement shows up in our neighborhoods, its purpose is to strike terror.”

“For the original transgression of this land was not slavery. It was greed, and it could not be contained.”

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free.”

I think that theater is a magnificent art form that encourages empathy and that also exercises empathy.

When people ask me, ‘Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

“Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.”

Unions have been fighting the 1 percent vs 99 percent fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight.

Before you kill something, make sure you have something better to replace it with.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

 ”Every time that someone has an experience with some part of worker culture or labor culture, they can understand things about themselves as well as understanding about other people.”