"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 a decent living." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln

"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both." - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

"I believe in corporations. They are indispensible instruments of our modern civilization; but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that they shall act for the interest of the community as a whole." - Theodore Roosevelt

"And now take wages. An unemployed man is an out-of-work customer. He cannot buy. An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Uncertainty or insufficiency of income weakens purchasing power. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power and the source of purchasing power is wages..." - Henry Ford