Activist Quote by Jay Roach

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so…

— Jack Kirby

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it…

— Debbie Reynolds

“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror, including bombings,…

— Charles Brandt

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then…

— Michael Parenti

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists…

— Vijay Prashad

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of…

— Ben Hecht

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social…

— Angus Deaton

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and…

— Fran Lebowitz

They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in…

— Patric Verrone

There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had…

— Dr. John

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a…

— Ben Hecht