Cesar Chavez Quotes

To the workman we appeal by the memory and traditions of his own sufferings and wrongs to be vigilant to avoid the great guilt of inflicting upon his fellow-citizens the injustice from which he has himself escaped.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Stop demonizing American workers who don't belong to unions who are happy in their jobs.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.

The unions used to sell security. They can’t deliver any more.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Labor unions are often brutal, they are often cruel, they are often unjust.... I don't care how many brutalities they are guilty of. I know that their cause is just. I meant that however unjust and cruel they sometimes are, their cause is just.

What freedom? To be wage-slaves, hired and fired at the will of a soulless corporation?

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

The present miner has had his day; he has been oppressed and ground down and denied the right to live as a human being; but there is another generation coming up, a generation of little children prematurely doomed to the whirl of the mill and the soot and the noise and the blackness of the breaker. It is for them that we are fighting.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.