Harry Bridges Quotes

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• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have,…
• I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.
• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
• Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
• Im a machine man, and I head a machine.
• Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit…
• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
• Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working…
• Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be…

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