Richard Ojeda Quotes

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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

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

To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

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

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

I will strengthen our unions and our middle-class families so that no longer will they be pushed around by employers but will finally have a seat at the table.

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

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.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

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 working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.