Labor Laws Quotes:

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

- David Letterman

topic: Children, Men, Labor Laws, Ladies And Gentlemen, Child Labor

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Fighting, Rights, Purpose, Labor Laws, Labor Union

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Believe, Hard Work, Labor Laws

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

topic: Party, Law, Political, Social Programs, Social Security

And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.171, Crown

topic: Jobs, Opportunity, Law, Labor Laws, Living Wage

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

- Mariano Rajoy

source: "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

topic: Cutting, Law, Taxation, Labor Laws, Restructure

These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Children, Law, Safety, Labor Laws, Medicare

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

- Linda Chavez

topic: Law, Unions, Littles, Labor Laws, Public Sector

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Nuclear, Movement, Weapons, Labor Laws

As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.

- Ivanka Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Children, Father, Law, Labor Laws

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Country, Freedom, Stupid, Labor Laws, Boycott

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!

- Utah Phillips

source: Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

topic: Country, Song, Brother, Benevolent, Labor Laws

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

- Thomas Frank

source: "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

topic: Prayer, War, School, Labor Laws, Twentieth Century