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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3323)

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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
Aneurin Bevan
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
Aneurin Bevan
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Aneurin Bevan
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
Aneurin Bevan
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
Aneurin Bevan
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin Bevan
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan
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Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
Andy Stern
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When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
Andy Stern
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The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
Andy Stern
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The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
Andy Stern
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I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.
Andy Stern
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I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
Andy Stern
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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Andy Stern
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil
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If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.
Jimmy Hill
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