“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” – Fannie Lou Hamer; hear her sing on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour. 

“So many Christmas stories are about capitalism and are about work and are often about some kind of hard-hearted employer having a change of heart and seeing the light, getting into the Christmas spirit and realizing that people actually need to rest during the holidays.”Kathleen M. Newman

Through crime and crusadeOur labor, it’s been stolenWe’ve been robbed of our freedomWe’ve been held down and beholdenTo the bosses and bankersWho never gave their shareOf any bloodOf any sweatOf any tearsDropkick Murphys, Who’ll Stand With Us?

“The rich have us by the balls of late but buck up, there's a lot more of us than there are of them. Keep shining, we'll get 'em good.”Musician Carsie Blanton, whose music the DC Labor Chorus will be singing in their December concert and who participated in the 2025 Great Labor Arts Ex

”Don't look at Gene Debs as some kind of historical figure. Look at him as somebody who is motivating us today.”Bernie Sanders at the 2025 Debs Award; listen on the Labor Heritage Power Hour.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”Sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin; shared by labor jo

“A song can make the powerful tremble.”Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet.

"I walked away with an attitude that, if our country is screwed up, don't give up. Unscrew it, but don't give up."               &nbsp