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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3316)

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Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
Gary Snyder
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. Philip Randolph
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The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
A. Philip Randolph
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted it is won. Justice is never given it is exacted.
A. Philip Randolph
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
A. Philip Randolph
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
A. Philip Randolph
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When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
James Callaghan
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In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
A. J. Muste
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
A. J. Muste
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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
A. J. Muste
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
Bela Lugosi
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A thinker is a person.
Joseph Cook
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch
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The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]... For instance, once she goes - if she's ever going to die, it seems to be questionable - if Charles [of Wales] were there, whether there'd be the same sort of cement is very questionable, I think.
Bob Hawke
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Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.
William Daniels
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We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.
Evo Morales
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
Saul Alinsky
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Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about data in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.
John Dewey
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In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
Cesar Chavez
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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin
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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Simone Weil
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails more books and less arsenals more learning and less vice more leisure and less greed more justice and less revenge in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Samuel Gompers
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The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
Donna Shalala
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
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