Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

The toilers have awakened to the new found power of organized effort.

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.

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

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.

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.

Long live the workers' republic that the Workers Party fights for!

We can also build. 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. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

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

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

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.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

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

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

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