They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s]…

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social…

— Angus Deaton

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the…

— Noam Chomsky

Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become…

— Noam Chomsky

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red…

— Noam Chomsky

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost…

— Noam Chomsky

For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the countryside for…

— Noam Chomsky

I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had…

— Noam Chomsky

The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival is even…

— Noam Chomsky

When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious -…

— Noam Chomsky

It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted…

— Noam Chomsky

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I…

— Noam Chomsky

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman