In 1913 the pres. of blacksmiths union told banquet hall full of clergy, "I believe that I can see the conditions of our day depicted in the fifth Chapter of James, & would like to hear a few sermons preached from that chapter. I have never heard an interpretation." #LaborHistory

When one of D.L. Moody's richest patrons cast unions as unchristian, a worker noted, "there is a fair prospect for the Knights of Labor to reach the kingdom of heaven, but...it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for him to get there." #laborhistory

In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. brought striking sanitation workers to their feet, riffing on the parable of rich man & Lazarus: "Dives went to hell because he passed by Lazarus every day, but he never really saw him...because he allowed Lazarus to become invisible." #laborhistory