“ One of my greatest assets as a working artist is just my stubbornness, you know?”

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

“I failed the UAW. I let my union down.”

 ”One of the funnier reactions I've seen to one of my posters was that it actually triggered a labor review board hearing.”

“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.”