A Prayer for America: on Jobs


Engrave into stone the rights of working people

The soul of the worker is not for sale. It will not be sacrificed upon the corporate altar, nor annihilated by a hostile or indifferent government. The soul of the worker will be redeemed by the enshrinement in law of workers’ rights. If in 2004 Labor goes up to the mountaintop of our nation’s capital, it must bring back, engraved in stone, the rights of working people:
Source: Speech to Iowa AFL-CIO, in Prayer for America, p.102-3 Aug 14, 2002

  • The above quotations are from A Prayer for America, by Dennis Kucinich .
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