The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.