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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.
Simone Weil
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We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you’re not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.
Tom Morello
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Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
John Perez
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William O. Douglas
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Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph
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Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
Tom Morello
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Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
Carl Sandburg
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
Theodore Bikel
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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
Jimmy Hoffa
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It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
Ernest Bevin
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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
Mother Jones
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As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
John Dewey
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Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
Joseph Cook
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To get Congress to do anything.
Helen Keller
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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
William O. Douglas
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I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.
Evo Morales
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Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.
Stephen F. Lynch
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul Alinsky
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones
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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
Cesar Chavez
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Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
Donna Shalala
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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
Dorothy Day
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