Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Teacher, Peace

• I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, People

• I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Organization, Important, Organize

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Country, Believe

• The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Play, Roles

• We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Saving, Today

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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