Union Quotes
1378 quotes by 965 authors
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The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented…
— Barack Obama
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Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish,…
— Dwight L. Moody
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
— James Emanuel
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
— Glenn Archer
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to…
— Ronald Reagan
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
— Franklin Pierce
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The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.
— Bill Cosby
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his…
— Thomas Carlyle
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined…
— John L. Lewis
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Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
— George Meany
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Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
— Andy Stern
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There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.…
— Cesar Chavez
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I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers…
— Cesar Chavez
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There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it…
— Cesar Chavez
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In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
— Cesar Chavez
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We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.…
— Cesar Chavez
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