Alex Ferguson Quotes

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

I am not given to Political Economy, but I can use my eyes. I have never seen the masters (mill owners) getting thin and haggard for want of food

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.

The battle to right the wrongs of income inequality is not – and cannot be – just a union issue. It is an issue for every American, union or non-union, white or of color, young or senior, straight or gay, income inequality is a battle for the very heart and soul of the nation.

Since Mill, in 1848, wrote his chapter on the future of the working classes, the question of the distribution of wealth has be-come of still greater importance. We cannot look round on the political phenomena of to-day without seeing that this question is at the root of them. We see the perplexity in which men stand, and the divisions springing up in our great political parties, because of the uncertainty of politicians how to grapple with it.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

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

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?