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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.
Bob Hawke
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The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
Harry Hay
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As it turns out, we don't all have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.
David Graeber
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The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.
Bob Hawke
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A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.
William O. Douglas
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We believe in the inherent goodness of man.
Steven Biko
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What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
Simone Weil
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
Adam Michnik
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A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.
John Dewey
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
Adam Michnik
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Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
Margaret Sanger
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It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.
A. Philip Randolph
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Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
Henry Spira
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The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
Carl Sandburg
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A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.
Ed Asner
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You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
Richard Masur
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It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Simone Weil
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We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
Joseph Cook
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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
Emily Greene Balch
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Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
Jacques Delors
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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
John Dewey
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