We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin, July 4, 1776
Remark to John Hancock, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: “We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.”
Mother Jones, 1902
Speaking before the convention of the UMWA, Indianapolis, IN
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
Eugene V. Debs (1894)
United we bargain, divided we beg.
SEIU Health Care Workers Union Local 250 button
A woman’s place is in her union.
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
In Unity there is strength
I don’t want to strike, but I will!
SEIU Health Care Workers Union Local 250 button
If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar!
Abraham Lincoln
When top union officials are making deals without the consent of the rank and file, impeach him, the employers have him bought.
Harry Bridges
“Just who are these goddamn Reds, anyway?? A goddamn Red is anyone who wants 30 cents when I’m paying 25 cents.”
John Steinbeck, American Author 1902-1968
Grapes of Wrath.......... Tom Joad LIVES!!
“The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.”
Martin Luther King
“Sometimes to be silent is to lie.”
Miguel Unamuno Spanish Philosopher
“I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Nineteenth century robber baron Jay Gould
