Labour Movement quotes
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them."
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
"The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America."
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."
"The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim."
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