Quotes About Justice

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

The exploitation of distressed workers and the social disparities must not continue.

The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.

Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

Workers' rights are under attack across the country.

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.

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

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.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.

Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the court has decided a string of 5-4 decisions in which the Republican-appointed majority votes as a block in favor of corporations, overlooking workers and families looking for a fair shake.

When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually accept lower wages. As a result, all workers in the plant, including U.S. citizens, will see their wages go down.

The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

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.