Worker Rights Quotes

#1. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

James P. Hoffa

#2. Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Sherrod Brown

#3. My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

Barack Obama

#4. I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

Gisela Stuart

#6. To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people. Chapter 29, pg. 376

Upton Sinclair

#7. Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#9. My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

Yaya DaCosta

#10. Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.

Cornel West

#11. I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

John Edward