Robert Peel Quotes

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

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.

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

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

We must remember that the real problem is not how to produce some improvement in the condition of the working man— for that has to a certain extent been attained already— but how to secure his complete material independence.

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.

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

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

We were no experts in the field of labor organization, but we had something in common with our fellow workers -- we were all poor -- we were all overworked -- we were all victims of the 84 hour week. In fact, we were all so low down on the economic and social ladder that we had nowhere to go but up

To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

Every socialist recognizes the dependence of the workingman on the capitalist.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

A Common white laborer in Charles Town earned no greater wage than a Negro.

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

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

We are the workers' party. We are the party of the hard working individual.

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

Expanding access to decent work opportunities is the most effective way to increase labor-market participation, lift people out of poverty, reduce inequality, and drive economic growth. It should be at the center of policymaking. The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

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.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

I make films about working class people.