“…the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.”

Decades of deep-seated inequality, deep-seated poverty. Um, it takes more than a few years to reverse…I think what we've done is we've, we've really planted seeds and many of them have started to bloom."

That's a storm that's going to last until
The final wind blows...
and when the wind blows,
The Cradle Will Rock.

Life, Liberty, and Happiness for all human beings, including all workers, that is the great goal of organized labor and of the Socialist movement.

“We were the cargo on the ships that came into the harbor. And now, we control the cargo coming through here.”

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

“This bill will help millions of California workers meet their responsibilities to both their families and their employers.”

"We will not sit idly by while the bare necessities of life are taken from the needy and given to the greedy."

“It isn’t about you alone. It’s about the people who will come after you.”

I have no intention of representing those powerful interests who walk over powerless people.

We wanted something different for our people. Not to find ourselves an old reactionary republic full of ghost fears. The fears of death and the fears of birth. We want something else.

Union is power; the most attenuated thread, when sufficiently multiplied, will form the strongest cable. A single drop of water is a weak and powerless thing, but an infinite number of drops united by the force of attraction will form a stream, and many streams combined will form a river, till rivers pour their waters into the mighty ocean, whose proud waves defying the power of man none can stay but He who formed them.