Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

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.

Any member of the party who … advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation, shall be expelled from membership of the party.

The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defense of their livelihood.

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

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.

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.

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.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

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

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.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

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

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

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

Fear of the consequences of the masses’ indignation often induces the class holding parliamentary power to make concessions which the masses would not otherwise have obtained

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.

This trial is a fight between capital and labor, of which this is but a manifestation up here in the woods.

When the proletariat is not organized enough to conduct a successful struggle against the political power of the ruling class, it must be trained for such a purpose by steady and hostile instigation.

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

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.