Annie Lennox Quotes

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Leaders of the business community ... have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old. .

If class warfare isn’t the richest of the rich fighting tooth and nail against unions and any tax increases while record numbers of people lose their homes, what is?

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

If I ever thought it necessary, if I thought a combination of laborers were doing wrong, I would apply for an injunction against them just as quickly as against so many capitalists.

The minute your membership looses a job that can be identified, economic theory goes out the window. You're dealing with frightened human beings.

There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.

There is and always has been in an advanced stage of wealth and civilization, a conflict between labor and capital.

The labor movement was ill-equipped to deal with the new inequalities arising almost inevitably from the less secure, part time and low paid nature of women’s occupations.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

Class warfare has never created a job.