Top 26 Quotes About Organized Labor: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Organized Labor

#1. Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Warren Beatty

#2. I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

Dave Beard

#3. And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tom Hayden

#4. The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.

Thomas R. Donahue

#5. I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Dolores Huerta

#6. In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

Eugene V. Debs

#7. Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

Roscoe Pound

#8. We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

Danny Aiello

#9. Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Edward Kennedy

#10. We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.

Deval Patrick

#11. There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

Joe Biden

#12. You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Maximus The Confessor

#13. Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

Harry Bridges

#14. I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#16. Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#17. The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

John L. Lewis

#18. It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#19. The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards are not for production, but for the employment of organized power to take over a share of what others produce.

Louis O. Kelso

#20. You can't do it unless you organize.

Samuel Gompers

#21. The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!

Hubert H. Humphrey