Strike Quotes

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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer… — Cesar Chavez
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons… — Cesar Chavez
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,… — Cesar Chavez
The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get… — Cesar Chavez
My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. — Woody Allen
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! — Walt Whitman
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. — Seneca the Younger
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then… — Francis Bacon
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would… — Abraham Lincoln
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be… — Albert Schweitzer
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,… — Jacques Monod
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not… — John F. Kerry
A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important… — Nolan Ryan

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