Lupe Ontiveros Quotes

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

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

The fight for the liberation of the working class from its present position, which is beneath a free people, is not a fight for new class privileges and prerogatives but for equal rights and equal obligations for all and for the abolition of class rule

I, however, wished to win over the soul of the German workingman, and I fought zealously to attain this goal. I was filled with the consciousness of a plain duty and responsibility toward my entire people--also, therefore, toward the laboring classes. What was theirs by right and justice should become theirs, I thought; moreover, I believed that this should be brought about, wherever the will or power of the employers ceased, by the lord of the land and his government, in so far as justice or necessity demanded. As soon as I had recognized the necessity for reforms, to some of which the industrial elements would not consent, I took up the cudgels for the laboring classes, impelled by a sense of justice.

It's impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.

My heart lies with the workers.

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.

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.

I'm going to lead a revolution for working people in America. This includes all workers: white, black and brown, men and women, gay and straight, urban and rural.

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

Dr. King's last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less well-known is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.

I am the son of a mine worker.

I've always viewed the 'Ed Show' as being a voice for the voiceless.

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.

I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

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

I'm blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.