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Quotes About Toilers

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
~ John L. Lewis
He wanted to honor Shad for the sweaty shirt, the honest toil, and all the rugged virtues, but even as a Liberal American Humanitarian, Doremus found it hard always to keep up the Longfellow's-Village-Blacksmith-cum-Marx attitude consistently and not sometimes backslide into a belief that there must be some crooks and swine among the toilers as, notoriously, there were so shockingly many among persons with more than $3500 a year.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Emancipation of the toilers can be the work only of the toilers themselves.
~ bakunin mikhail v
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
~ John L. Lewis
Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.
~ Calvin Miller
He thought then of what it would be. Of that moment when the dispossessed, the toilers, the, yes if she wanted, yes, the commonalty heard that the Mayor, the head of the Fat Sun, the arbiter of New Crobuzon, was gone. What that would be.
~ China Mieville
The rule of the toilers has for the first time been realised in the soviet system, which, whatever its immediate historic vicis-situdes, has penetrated as irrevocably into the consciousness of the masses as did in its day the system of the Reformation or of pure democracy.
~ Leon Trotsky