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Mother Jones

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

President John F. Kennedy

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all Americans.

President Jimmy Carter

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor

President Dwight Eisenhower

Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

President Harry S. Truman

The right to join a union of one’s choice is unquestioned today and is sanctioned and protected by law.

Samuel Gompers

Let your watchword be: Union and progress, and until then, no surrender.

Eugene Debs

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

President Harry S. Truman

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I were a worker in a factory, the first thing I would do would be to join a union.

Daniel Webster

Labor is the great producer of wealth: it moves all other causes.

Sidney Hillman

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.