“History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.”
1960s, Address to AFL–CIO (1961)
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As quoted in Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs : From Peace to War (1985) by Shabtai Teveth, p. 66
“Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.”
We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simplest fundamental term—human survival.
Source: Writing in The New Republic, Vol. 114 (1946)
“Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days.”
Source: Jailbird (1979), p. 12 (prologue)
Context: Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor's sufferings and derring-do.
The Communist Manifesto, footnote (1888 edition)
“The insignificant labor, the great create.”
Die Kleinen schaffen, der Große erschafft.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 61.
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 1 : Our Riches
" "Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6000", Video Interview (13:28), The Real News Network (TRNN) (January 1, 2011)