Quotes by Labor Leaders

We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.
Mother Jones
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers
Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
César Chávez
I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
Mother Jones
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.
Sidney Hillman
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.
Sidney Hillman
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta
If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
César Chávez
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
César Chávez
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
César Chávez
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
César Chávez
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
A. Philip Randolph