LABOR QUOTES

I have been a daughter; I have been a wife; I have been a mother; I have been a grandmother; but I never truly was a woman until I became a sister when I joined the union.
Lucille Dickess, President, Clerical & Technical Workers, Yale University

The AFL-CIO has done more good for more people than any group in America in its legislative efforts.  It doesn't just try to do something about wages and hours for its own people.  No group in the country works
 harder in the interests of everyone. 
  President Lyndon Johnson, 1965

... I was stirred by the terrible injustice which I saw meted out to women on every hand, and I realized the especial need of their voice and influence in the two great causes of temperance and anti-slavery.  
Susan B. Anthony, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist, Born February 15, 1820

... Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
Abraham Lincoln, Born February 12, 1809

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops
 without plowing up the ground.  They want rain without thunder and lightning."
Frederick Douglass, Born February 12, 1817

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Born January 15, 1929