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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
Carl Sandburg
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The mine owners do not find the gold.
Bill Haywood
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
Lech Walesa
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Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
John Dewey
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
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Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.
Bob Hawke
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The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
Joshua Nkomo
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
Lech Walesa
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Arthur Henderson
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Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
Michael Apted
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Carl Sandburg
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Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.
John L. Lewis
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The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
Carl Sandburg
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A. J. Muste
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Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.
Sharan Burrow
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Carl Sandburg
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Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.
Saul Alinsky
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When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen Keller
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Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.
Dave Van Ronk
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Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.
Andy Stern
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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
Adam Michnik
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