Activist Quote by Nat Hentoff

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

— C. L. R. James

I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and…

— Will Rogers

Andre Johnson, one of the hardest workers.

— Cris Carter

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I…

— C. L. R. James

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear advantages: they were directly blocking the use of strikebreakers; they…

— Howard Zinn

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful…

— Mary Harris Jones

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the…

— C. L. R. James

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but…

— Shimon Peres

“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager strikes was…

— E.L. Doctorow

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;…

— Alex Gibney

My grandfather had strong opinions. He was an argumentative character and quite staunchly socialist.

— Bill Bailey