Unionism Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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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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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to…
— H. L. Mencken
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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
— Richard Attenborough
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If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations…
— Eugene V. Debs
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As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there…
— Gerry Adams
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There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.
— Gerry Adams
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The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the…
— A. Philip Randolph
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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in…
— Rose Schneiderman
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This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument…
— Leon Jouhaux
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Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have…
— Jimmy Reid
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I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.
— Charles Kennedy
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In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and…
— Frances O'Grady
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
— George Bernard Shaw
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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
— Seamus Heaney
Who Wrote These Unionism Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Unionism Quotes as follows: