May 1 is May Day, also known as International Workers' Day! Peruse the window display at Powell's Books on Hawthorne, and take these books and quotes (also featured in the window) into your heart.
"The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor." — Thomas Donahue
"The people united will never be defeated." — Cesar E. Chavez
"The most important word in the language of the working class is 'solidarity.'" — Harry Bridges
"Our movement is of the worker people, for the working people, by the working people." — Samuel Gompers
"They are not doing it by seeking charity.... They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining." — Cesar E. Chavez
"It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.... by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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