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Quotes About Solidarity

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
~ Ernst Toller
One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
~ Haldan Keffer Hartline
In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
~ Leon Jouhaux
But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
~ Rose Schneiderman
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
~ John Sweeney
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
~ Hugh Masekela
The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
~ Tom Perez
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.
~ Michael Leunig
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.
~ Tom Douglas
The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Workers' rights are under attack across the country.
~ Elizabeth Esty
When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.
~ Sayed Kashua
Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepresented the labor and civil rights movements as two separate, sometimes adversarial efforts. But civil rights and workers' rights are two sides of the same coin.
~ Tom Perez
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
~ Sharan Burrow
You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.
~ Sharan Burrow
I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.
~ Bobby Cannavale
The main reason for our achievements is teamwork. It's quite simply the group of people that are here at Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Technology working as one unit.
~ Christian Horner
We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.
~ Bernie Sanders
Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
~ A. Philip Randolph
When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
~ Keren Woodward
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.
~ Rose Schneiderman
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.
~ Tom Perez
The way football is, sometimes, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. You have to dig yourselves out of that by simply working hard and sticking together.
~ Mark Noble
The NWO... we feel like we are the people's choice; we're doing things for the working man.
~ Scott Hall