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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
Simone Weil
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Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.
Margaret Sanger
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For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.
Errico Malatesta
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Saul Alinsky
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We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.
Rudolf Rocker
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil
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We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
Dolores Huerta
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I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
Patty Duke
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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.
Dorothy Day
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Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.
Ai-jen Poo
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All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
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Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
Andy Stern
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
John Burns
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We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
Dennis Weaver
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After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.
Rose Schneiderman
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I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
Gary Snyder
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In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.
Andy Stern
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Helen Keller
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War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.
Frank Capra
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Cesar Chavez
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The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
Saul Alinsky
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People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.
Jeremy Corbyn
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