Black Quote by Dr. John

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain…

— Solomon Burke

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

— Stanley Baldwin

I think unions started as a good thing back in the day, but they've turned into a monster.

— Matt Hughes

Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in…

— Edward Allen Bernero

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

— Charles Mingus

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent…

— Jim Ratcliffe

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part…

— Jimmy Smits

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

— Shirley Chisholm

“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to assign blame…

— Ibram X. Kendi

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment.…

— Henry Flynt

The reason I got into this union was to bring people together.

— Ken Howard

The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.

— Irene Cara