Douglas Fraser Quotes

American labor leader (1916–2008)

Douglas Andrew Fraser (December 18, 1916 – February 23, 2008) was an American union leader. He was president of the from 1977 to 1983, and an adjunct professor of labor relations at Wayne State University for many years.

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I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in our country—a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society.

I would rather sit with the rural poor, the desperate children of urban blight, the victims of racism, and working people seeking a better life than with those whose religion is the status quo, whose goal is profit and whose hearts are cold.