Conviction Quote by Lech Walesa

In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of bosses. Repressive…

— Owen Jones

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

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

— Ken Howard

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only…

— Andres Segovia

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

— Ted Lindsay

First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine…

— Susan Rosenberg

In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance…

— Ken Loach

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

— George Washington

“absolute ban on hiring anyone who had ever belonged to a union. One employee”

— Jane Mayer

My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…

— Dorothy Day

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

— George Jackson