Warren Beatty Quotes

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.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

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.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

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.

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?

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.

When the businessmen of the country were demanding the right to organize themselves adequately to promote their legitimate interests; when the farmers were demanding legislation which would give them opportunities and incentives to organize themselves for a common advance, it was natural that the workers should seek and obtain a statutory declaration of their constitutional right to organize themselves for collective bargaining.

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

When labor is strong, America is strong.

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

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

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.

And if you are going to truly stand with workers, it also means embracing solidarity, not attempting through lame talking points to pit union workers against non-union workers.

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

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.