Bernard Crick Quotes

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

“A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realized?

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.

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.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

Property is theft.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.