Best Strikes Sayings
1230 Strikes quotes by 984 unique authors
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make…
— Ben Jonson
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because…
— William James
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[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only…
— Keith Olbermann
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Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn,…
— Lucy Parsons
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The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
— George Bernard Shaw
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god…
— Theodore Dreiser
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its…
— Cesar Chavez
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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
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,…
— Alexander Smith
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My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.
— Woody Allen
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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
— Walt Whitman
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There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political…
— Chuck Hagel
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It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that…
— Carl Levin
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I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very…
— Adam Schiff
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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
— Rene Dubos
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Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
— Rene Dubos
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