Abigail Adams writing to husband John Adams in 1776
UC Radio: 2015.12.15
Daily Archives: August 30, 2017
I could get rid of all the workers who earn… $15 an hour and bring in a contract house that will pay their laborers $7 an hour. But that breaks the spirit and trust of the employees. If you close a factory because you can get work done for $2 an hour elsewhere, you break the American Dream.
Aaron Feuerstein CEO, Malden Mills, Inc., 1986
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions… Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Phillip Randolph: President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
UC Radio: 2016.04.15; 2015.06.18
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
A. Phillip Randolph, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
UC Radio: 2015.08.25; 2010 Directory
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
A. Phillip Randolph, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
UC Radio: 2017.05.30; 2016.08.25; 2015.10.09
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