Jimmy Gomez Quotes

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

In some countries the laboring poor were called freemen and in others they were called slaves but that the difference of the state was imaginary only…. the condition of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly in the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves.

Instead of favoring the wealthy, Civil Government ought carefully to protect the poor laborious and industrious Part of Mankind.

My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.

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

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

My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.

My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

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

While the American can out-work the alien, the alien can so far under-live the American as to force him out of all competitive labor.

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

Our ancestors who migrated hither were laborers, not lawyers.

To the workman we appeal by the memory and traditions of his own sufferings and wrongs to be vigilant to avoid the great guilt of inflicting upon his fellow-citizens the injustice from which he has himself escaped.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

Read the novels of some authors with leftist tendencies, such as Howard Fast. Read the famous book, The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck … and see what it says about the situation of the left and how the capitalists of the of the so-called Center of Democracy treated them.

Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepresented the labor and civil rights movements as two separate, sometimes adversarial efforts. But civil rights and workers' rights are two sides of the same coin.

It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

Mexico is a Latin powerhouse. And Mexicans, they're known as hard workers. Here in the U.S., not everybody wants to do those kinds of jobs. I've lived. I know what it feels like and what they go through and how families suffer.

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.