“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.” –Thomas Donahue, President, AFL-CIO More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” –Author unknown More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com

“Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated [...]

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.” –Alice Walker, author More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com

“What does Labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and [...]

“Even if we or our families were not directly involved, we had heard and read about pickets being beaten, jailed, sometimes killed. Honoring a picket line was the least we could do. It still is.” –Sydney Lens, author More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — the factory, farm, or office. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” –Eleanor Roosevelt (1953) [...]

“No system has ever existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.” –John Dewey; American philosopher, educator; (1950) More info & ammo for unionists at biglabor.com