Logo
Quote by Richard Trumka
I do believe that freedom isnt free - but today the corporate and

I do believe that freedom isnt free – but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. Theyve been cynically using the word freedom to rally the American public against its own best interests. – Richard Trumka

Other quotes by Richard Trumka

I say lets go back to a truer use of the word freedom. Lets start with President Franklin Roosevelts Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. – Richard Trumka

Category:
Fear
Author
Richard Trumka
Read Quote

Time after time were told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards – giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. – Richard Trumka

Category:
environmental
Author
Richard Trumka
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

Theres a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didnt – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman

Category:
Freedom

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. – Epictetus

Category:
Freedom

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our childrens? – King Abdullah II

Category:
Freedom

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling. – Adam Derek Scott

Category:
amazing

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Government

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – Thank God Its Friday. They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. – Richard Nelson Bolles

Category:
Business

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Category:
Peace