Alvah Bessie Quotes

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

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

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

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.

The masses of the working-people of Scotland have read history, and are no revolutionary levelers.

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.

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

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.

I make films about working class people.

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.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian 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.

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.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

In Russia the workers are powerless, kept in spiritual as well as physical bondage. The American workers are free to take up the fight, free to act, to read, to publish, to discuss, to instruct themselves, to combine in unions, to assemble in meeting, to strike. Hence it is only here [America] that the fight for peace can begin…. The [solution] consists in mass-actions of American workers against capitalist power. If they should proceed to wrench the decision on policy from big capital, the most essential step to deter the threat of atomic war would be made

In the class-struggle the conflict must always concern itself with immediate, practical objects

Workers of the world unite!

Solidarity Forever