Labour Quotes

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

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.

The longest suicide note in history.

The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

He who labours, prays.

I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.