“Women are ready to become full partners in the struggle for a decent way of life. Their skills and talent are needed and they are willing to contribute to the union cause." 


-Addie Wyatt, first woman to be elected an International Vice President of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union

 
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”  

 -Alice Walker

 “My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

                                                                    —Mother Jones

 
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”     

 – Abigail Adams

 
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did,
but she did it backwards and in high heels.”  

                                                            - Faith Whittlesey

“Only where they are organized do women get equal pay for equal work.” 

        – Eleanor Roosevelt 

 
“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”

-Susan B. Anthony

Lucy Parsons

“We are the slaves of slaves. We are exploited more ruthlessly than men.”

-Lucy Parsons                           
labor and civil rights activist

“When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.”

 -Alice Adams

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”

                -Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm