Ken Loach Quotes

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

My heart lies with the workers.

That's the Rebel Girl, That's the Rebel Girl. To the working class she's a precious pearl. She brings courage, pride and joy To the fighting Rebel Boy We've had girls before, but we need some more In the Industrial Workers of the World For it's great to fight for freedom With a Rebel Girl

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

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

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

The Labor Community is carrying on … a very significant and instructive struggle.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. They are always marching and singing. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their months to sing.

We need writers who will joyfully impose upon themselves the discipline of understanding and acting upon working-class-theory.

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

Solidarity Forever

Voting for socialism is not socialism any more than a menu is a meal.... Of far greater importance is the economic organization of the working class.