Today's selection come from Walter Reuther.  A life long union organizer and champion of organized labor Walter Reuther had quite a career.  In 1937 he had a prominent role in The Battle of the Overpass, which was part of the larger sit down strikes against Ford.  In 1963 Reuther stood beside Martin Luther King Jr. as he read the famous "I Have A Dream" speech."  His death in 1970 remains very suspicious.  The FBI still refuses to release documents related to it.  He was named to Time Magazines list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

The labor movement is about changing society.  What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down?  What good is another weeks vacation if the lake you used to go to is polluted and you can't swim in it and your kids can't play in it?  And what good is another hundred-dollar pension if the world goes up in atomic smoke in a war?

Could not have said it better myself Mr. Reuther.