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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Ammon Hennacy
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
John Dewey
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To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.
Rose Schneiderman
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the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.
Vida Dutton Scudder
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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Arthur Scargill
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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Kent McCord
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As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.
Saul Alinsky
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Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.
Evo Morales
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day
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What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.
John Dewey
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Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
John Dewey
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By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
James Larkin
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Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. But as today's Report recommends, can we please leave Hitler and Nazi metaphors alone (especially in the context of Israel). Why? Because the Shoah is still in people's family experience.
Jeremy Corbyn
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Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.
Patty Duke
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One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
Simone Weil
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I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Education is life itself.
John Dewey
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This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
Arthur Henderson
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He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.
Michael Apted
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
Theodore Bikel
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A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.
Charlton Heston
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To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.
Dorothy Day
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If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.
Jeremy Corbyn
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An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
Charlton Heston
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