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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.
Helen Keller
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The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.
Margaret Sanger
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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
Eugene V. Debs
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A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.
Tony Clark
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We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.
Frank Capra
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The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
Margaret Sanger
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
C. L. R. James
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Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
Paul Keating
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For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.
Rudolf Rocker
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
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You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.
Kenneth Williams
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady
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The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.
David Ben-Gurion
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Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.
Thomas Hughes
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It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual interruption, not continuity spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Helen Keller
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
Aneurin Bevan
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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
Emily Greene Balch
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By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
Bob Hawke
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Life is full of surprises, isn't it?
Charlton Heston
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Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.
Stig Dagerman
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They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.
Patric Verrone
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