"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say……" — Leon Jouhaux
"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."
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Leon Jouhaux
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15 Quotes by Leon Jouhaux
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for…
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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…
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This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the…
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if…
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A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of…
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At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the…
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From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through…
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I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle…
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in…
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Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories,…
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On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
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The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification…
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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was…
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Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further…
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once…
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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate…
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any…
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good.…
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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for…
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Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption…
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