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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3323)

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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.
Eugene V. Debs
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil
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I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.
Helen Keller
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Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.
Evo Morales
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They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.
Jimmy Hill
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There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
Ernest Bevin
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
Carl Sandburg
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I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.
Tzachi Hanegbi
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Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
Charlton Heston
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
Utah Phillips
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As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...
Utah Phillips
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
Utah Phillips
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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
Utah Phillips
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips
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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
Utah Phillips
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
Utah Phillips
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Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.
Utah Phillips
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I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
Kent McCord
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I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
Dorothy Day
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What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Anna Louise Strong
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We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.
Anna Louise Strong
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From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.
Anna Louise Strong
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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
Anna Louise Strong
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Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Anna Louise Strong
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