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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
Margaret Sanger
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
Frances O'Grady
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions but it produces nothing.
Georges Sorel
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My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
Derek Fisher
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I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
Dorothy Day
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Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
Tom Morello
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
Melissa Gilbert
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
Samuel Gompers
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You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.
Charlton Heston
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
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I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
John Prescott
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Hubert Humphrey with kidsBe clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity
Chico Mendes
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The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
Lane Kirkland
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The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
Richard Trumka
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This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
Evo Morales
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Dennis Weaver
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
Dorothy Day
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Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
David Ben-Gurion
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I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.
Jonathan Tasini
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How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
John Dewey
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Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
Cesar Chavez
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Dorothy Day
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