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Trade Unionist Inspirational Quotes (3316)

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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
William O. Douglas
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
William O. Douglas
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
William O. Douglas
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
William O. Douglas
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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
William O. Douglas
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One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
Saul Alinsky
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny
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I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.
Richard Masur
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The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.
Dolores Huerta
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Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
Simone Weil
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The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
Utah Phillips
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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
Alan Rosenberg
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Actors are frightened little children.
Alan Rosenberg
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I was just sort of moving through time.
Patty Duke
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Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
John Dewey
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The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.
Alan Johnson
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
Helen Keller
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Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
James P. Hoffa
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
Dorothy Day
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I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.
Richard Masur
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
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My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.
George Stevens
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Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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