Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Saturday, April 30, 2011

MLK, Labor, And Collective Bargaining

"You are doing many things here in this struggle," [MLK] assured them. "You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor." Too often, he said, folks looked down on people like them, people who did menial or unglamorous work. But he encouraged them not to bemoan their humble state. "All labor has dignity," he said.

http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/C4/20110405/OPINION05/104050315/Leonard-Pitts-Jr-Full-circle-war-against-workers?odyssey=nav|head