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“On May Day we salute the Soviet Union – land of socialism – land of peace and plenty, the great ideal of labor since time immemorial, the cooperative commonwealth of all who toil.”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(The IWW} was not only the inheritor of many of the traditions of the 1880's but personalities who were identified with the 1880's were present at the early conventions of the IWW. The names may not be known to you unless you are students of labor history but included were such figures as Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon and Mrs. Lucy Parsons”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is really one thing that I am proud of in my long labor history, it is that while he was in prison, before he was executed, Joe Hill wrote a song for me dedicated to me, that was called, the "Rebel Girl" and that song, I hope you will do it here some time, it may not be the best of words or the best of music, but it came from the heart and it was certainly so treasured.”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had become very, very interested in the labor movement. I mean, I had...first there were the anarchistas and so forth. And then you had, also, the influence in the CTM [Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico].”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read quite a bit. I would say I read, well, I didn’t read all of Das Kapital, but I read that and Price and Profit, Wage, Labor & Capital, so I had an idea of how capital was made; how it was used, and so forth and so on.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was always considered a "shaigitz" when I was young and as a militant out-spoken trade-unionist during my activities in the labor movement, I am not afraid of telling the truth to you now.”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jennie Matyas is recognized by the outside Labor and Education Movement, because she is a leader in her own rights, while countless others remain obscure through the good graces of the men whom they have helped into office.”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“organized labor's strongest weapon-the right to strike”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much has been written and said about labor enjoying excessive pay, but little has appeared in print about low-paid workers, such as those in hotels, restaurants, and laundries, being frozen to their jobs if they were employed in "locally needed activities." And scarcely anything is being said about the munitions makers who are amassing huge profits in this war as in those of the past.”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that Labor should have a directing voice in the economic, political and social life of the nation. I believe that political and industrial changes should be brought about by democratic methods and policies.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(I) have been an interested student of the labor and Socialist movements for more than 30 years.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My membership in the Socialist party began in April 1902 and ended March 1st 1936, when it became a party of dictators and lost its democratic soul. I have now cast my political lot with the Peoples Party affiliated with the American Labor Party.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘Labor contractor’ sounds so much nicer than ‘slave trader,’ wouldn’t you say?”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These big growers have a lot of money because we earned all that money for them. Because of our sweat and our labor that we put on the land.”
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz (1919–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw in the tombs in New York City a tiny, half-starved scrap of girlhood that should have been in a grade school, who was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor for saying that President Wilson was a hypocrite, and that girl is now serving this monstrous sentence with Stars and Stripes the emblem of freedom, justice, and democracy, flying over the hell-hole in which she is imprisoned.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Slavery is the most disgusting reality in the history of Puerto Rico. From slavery, from the riches of free labor for centuries by African men and women, comes the money of what is left of the old rich families of Puerto Rico.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 70s has seen an upsurge in activity and development for Chicanas without parallel. Chicanas have made enormous contributions in the fields of education, journalism, politics and labor. They have certainly added depth and new dimension to feminist philosophy and literature in this country.”
Martha P. Cotera (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first Chicanas to come into contact with the suffragist movements in the 1880s was Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, a Chicana socialist labor organizer.”
Martha P. Cotera (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every worker deserves to have protections on the job and it is the goal of the labor movement to ensure that happens.”
Liz Shuler (born 1970) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unions Are a Woman's Best Friend", momsrising.org (April 2, 2015)
“How poor is the memory of those right wing leaders that are blind to reason — who refuse to see that the interests of labor and the people are one”
Luisa Moreno (1907–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They fail to see that the attacks against some of us will later be extended to them and their unions. They have forgotten the story of Germany, the story of Spain, the story of France. They have forgotten that united we stand — that all the bona fide union in other civilized countries were crushed, and the labor leaders of the right and left shook hands in concentration camps!”
Luisa Moreno (1907–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the new Bridges case is a warning signal for all West Coast labor – that it symbolizes a desperate effort to tear down union conditions built in 15 years of struggle.”
Luisa Moreno (1907–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the labor movement is more than an economic enterprise or a field for energetic leadership. It has a deep social and spiritual significance. It draws men and women together in a great cooperative undertaking which grows in strength day and night and develops ideals of peace and well-being in society as well as practical contests of force.”
Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Short History of the American Labor Movement (1920)
“Time was when woman worked in the home, with her weaving, her sewing, her candle making. All that has been changed, and she can no longer regulate her own conditions and her own hours of labor. She has been driven in o the market, with no voice in the laws, and powerless to defend herself.”
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Service for victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (April 1, 1911)
“What can we do to free our consciences? There is one line of action by which we can do much. We can enlist the workingmen on behalf of our enfranchisement just in proportion as we strive with them to free the children. No labor organization in this country ever fails to respond to an appeal for help in the freeing of the children.”
Florence Kelley (1859–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oil and gas industry was decimated by the shale bubble bursting last decade, and that reticence plus labor and supply shortages are keeping it from more quickly adding to capacity now. The possibility of an external hit like a windfall tax, export ban, or other such political measures risk keeping potential suppliers on the sidelines”
Kelly Evans (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hope now is that fiscal and monetary policy are at least both retrenching, if policymakers truly want to wrestle inflation back down. Remember, this isn't about soaring (or collapsing) lumber prices anymore. It's about a labor market running so hot it's short of millions and millions of workers, which will make everything from childcare to elder care more inflationary in the long run”
Kelly Evans (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us not fail to take advantage of the present opportunity, and let us become familiar with the thought that we may yet be destined to bury this old society, whose history was written with the blood and tears of the wretched poor, to build over its ruins a world of freedom on the unshakable foundations of communal labor and mutual solidarity.”
Milly Witkop (1877–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conception of religion has extended from the individual to society; a true religion fills the need of both. Economics and government and a rational view of religion are based on human needs; and fundamental human needs underlie the so-called labor and women’s movements.”
Lillian Wald (1867–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They need to be able to use digital productive tools. We have to ensure that graduates join labor market with digital workforce skills”
Claudette Irere first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Govt commences digital literacy of SACCO users ahead of automation (21 October 2019)
“Our Air Force belongs to those who come from ranks of labor, management, the farms, the stores, the professions and colleges and legislative halls...Air Power will always be the business of every American citizen”
Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must never allow the labor of those who came before us to wither in vain but to blossom and bring forth a better reality.”
Bola Tinubu (born 1952) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://fmino.gov.ng/inaugural-address-by-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu-delivered-on-29-may-2023/.Honouring Nigeria's founding generation, Tinubu urged citizens to build upon the sacrifices of those who secured the countr…
“We also have to consider labor concerns in agriculture. Many workers received little and came to agriculture as a transitory activity, from which they had to be released quickly. We have to solve this. And there is also a need to solve the credit problem in rural areas. Many small owners have deaths and are very common in cases of suicide caused by deaths.”
Dzodzi Tsikata (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can breed, we can labor, we are creative, we are the first mathematicians, the first scientists, the first agriculturalists, we are a treasure trove. In the moment of male awareness about how amazing and central women are in the creation of surplus and the re-creation of human productivity, then arises the notion of power, exercised through the ownership of women’s bodies.”
Patricia McFadden (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But from its inception, the labor movement had attracted the same range of opportunists and self-servers as would any activity that offered the unscrupulous an avenue toward power and self-enrichment.”
Matthew Hughes (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Down among your... population, in addition to labor organizers, you’re bound to have a few public relations consultants.” “Quite a few,” said the Archfiend. “It’s a field that rewards amoral inventiveness.”
Matthew Hughes (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The days were filled with a kind of double waiting: waiting for news of Jadwiga and waiting for the police. I made myself get through the time, as if I were trudging through a snow drift: step by step, hour by hour, not a moment of rest from the hard labor of waiting, except perhaps at night. (p184)”
Ida Fink (1921–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I implore you and the Labor Party to govern like every decision, and every year, matters. Because it really, really does.”
Nerilie Abram (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am a climate scientist – and this is my plea to our newly elected politicians. May 25, 2022 10.17pm SAST, THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: November 14, 2023
“During our Zoom interview just before Labor Day. She notes that nothing less that winning each World Cup is the expectation placed on the USA’s women.”
Mia Hamm (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do your manual labor, do not be negligent, but apply yourself with the fear of God, in order not to sin by ignorance.”
Isaiah the Solitary (died 492) said by 492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They also used to say of him that [the wages of] all the labor he expended on the harvest, he would take and bring to Scete saying: “My widows and orphans are at Scete.”
John the Dwarf (339–405) said by 405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is true that "forced labor" is too mild a term for the camps of the twentieth century and that nobody in the world would actually want to go into a camp or gas chamber.”
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cura, labor, studium, sumpti pro munere honores, Ite, aliam posthac sollicitate animam. Me deus a uobis procul euocat. Ilicet actis Rebus terrenis, hospita terra uale. Corpus, auara, tamen sollemnibus excipe saxis. Nanque animam celo reddimus, ossa tibi.”
Hildebert of Lavardin (1056–1133) said by 1133 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Text and translation by Paul Antony Hayward in "The Earls of Leicester, Sygerius Lucanus, and the Death of Seneca...", Speculum, vol. 91, no. 2 (2016), p. 341. See also L. R. Lind, Latin Poetry in Verse Translation (195…
“For many, agriculture can represent deep pain because of the history of slavery, but also because of current land loss, forced migration and oppressive farm labor practices. But I remember thinking, “Could this be enough to keep us from picking up the plow again?” I think, for some people, possibly it is. But I’d like to think we recognize that our legacy with the land is so much more than that”
Natasha Bowen wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Percensere labor densis decora alta tropaeis ut si quis stellas pernumerare velit; confunduntque vagos delubra micantia visus: ipsos crediderim sic habitare deos.”
Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (400–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gilbert Norwood, "Rutilius Claudius Namatianus", Phoenix, vol. 1 (1947), p. 37:
“For we have here a beautiful land that none could e’er knock down, The brightest jewel that ever was known in dear old George's crown; The brightest jewel that ever was known and never can be a failure. Although the damn Labor party is doing its best to ruin Australia...”
Randolph Bedford (1868–1941) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Prize Poem", in The Bulletin Book of Humorous Verses and Recitations (1920)
“In the labor aspect, the law on Salary Councils must be reviewed, so that there is uniformity in their pronouncement, ensuring for the same category, equal salary and fair remuneration in accordance with the cost of living. It must be taken into consideration that their fixing is not a disturbing circumstance for the general economy, which will ultimately mean creating an illusion.”
Daniel Fernández Crespo (1901–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely licensed knowledge. The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify.”
Stephen Harrison (author) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’ October, 2025
“It's inaccurate to say that I "joined" politics; rather, I transitioned my labor union activism into political action when we formed the MDC in 1999. I am proud to be one of its founders. ZANU (PF) was anti-people, and its arrogance and refusal to address issues affecting workers and the broader nation motivated me to act.”
Paurina Mpariwa (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went to the labor office to submit my maternity leave papers, "Two men there told me to wait outside while they handled it for me.”
Chibesa Kankasa (1936–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source