Unionism Quotes

“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.”

“To be a good trade unionist is to be a good citizen.”

“My whole life has been a subscription to the idea that you're a better person for being a member of a union.”

“No surrender!”

“I would rather be British than be rich.”

“The 'pure and simple' union has no place in this century of concentrated capital.”

“This is the day of the laughing Protestants.”

“To secede from the Union and set up another government would be an act of suicide on the part of the State.”

“Never, never, never!”

“Solidarity is the only weapon the working class has.”

“The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers have.”

“We must show that trade unions are not a problem to be managed but a solution to be embraced.”

“We have to be organised, we have to be effective and we have to be relevant.”

“Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people.”

“The greatest force for the uplift of the downtrodden is the organized labor movement.”

“I'm a British-born unionist, I'm a Northern Ireland unionist, I'm an Ulster unionist.”

“The union is safe. Our constitutional position is guaranteed.”