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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3317)

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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
Helen Keller
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Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
Aneurin Bevan
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The program is already funded. Everything is in place.
Kenneth Williams
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Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
Bob Hawke
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
Evita Peron
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
C. L. R. James
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We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.
Cesar Chavez
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As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society the village or street group of playmates is a community each business group, each club, is another.
John Dewey
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa
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Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
A. J. Muste
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
Frances O'Grady
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I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.
Donna Shalala
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
Gary Snyder
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Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
John Dewey
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No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
B. Traven
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers
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Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men
Mother Jones
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Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.
Andy Stern
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We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa
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Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
Saul Alinsky
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