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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
Eugene V. Debs
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If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.
Gary Snyder
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The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.
Gus Hall
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
Robert Wise
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
Helen Keller
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Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.
Ted Theodore
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
Mother Jones
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
William O. Douglas
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My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
Ernest Bevin
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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now to increase his wages to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
Samuel Gompers
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
Simone Weil
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.
David Graeber
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Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
Helen Keller
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Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.
Obafemi Awolowo
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The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
Ed Asner
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I am not accustomed to protocol.
Evo Morales
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey
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There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
Cesar Chavez
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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
Simone Weil
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
Woody Guthrie
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