Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes

#1. A labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#2. The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#3. A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#4. The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#5. History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#6. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn