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Nya citat 2001-09-14
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell
Anyone with a part-time job works full-time for half salary.
Denise D. Lynn
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Wendell Phillips 1852
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
Adrienne Rich 1986
Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush mustache and swastika armband - it creeps up insidiously ... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.
Baron Lane, Lord Chief Justice of England
I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
Eugene V. Debs
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.
Alice Adams 1978
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peter F. Drucker
If Ms. Whitman wants privatization, let's send her back to private life.
Jesse Jackson, speaking to a rally of the Communication Workers of America which is opposing governor Whitman's plans to privatize some New Jersey state agencies
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
Cheris Kramer and Paula Treichler
They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
Humphrey Bogart on the House Un-American Activities Committee
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde 1891
Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
Angela Davis 1987
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
John Maynard Keynes
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
Noam Chomsky
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steve Biko
Some men rob you with a six-gun - others rob you with a fountain pen.
Woody Guthrie
I believe the leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a one-sided class war in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society.
Doug Frasier, President of the UAW, upon resigning from the President's Labor-Management Group in 1978
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel but not in the kitchen.
George Bernard Shaw
The labor question is the same the world over, and laborers of the world should clasp hands for their common weal.
Frank K. Foster at the founding convention of the A.F.L. in 1884
The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.
Dwight Morrow
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
Pope Leo XIII
The barbarous gold barons - they did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
Big Bill Hayward 1901
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
from Capital
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
Friedrich Engels
Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
from Capital
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than to contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business is to separate the wheat from the chaff and see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington 1962
I could never believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Richard Rumbold, English soldier
The idea that businesses will be driven to bankruptcy if strict environmental standards are adopted is the same tired line that has been brought up again and again since workers first organized to improve working conditions. It was brought up when child labor was eliminated, when the minimum wage was introduced, when Social Security and Unemployment Insurance were developed.
Leonard Woodcock 1976
Every single environmental measure should have a provision in it for the protection of a worker's income and benefits. That would go a long way toward undermining the jobs versus environment argument. As it is now, the companies pick up the issue and run with it.
Tony Mazzocchi, former V.P. of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, 1978
The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of property.
Tom Paine, The Rights of Man, 1792
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is something within the human spirit that cries for and demands to be treated with basic fairness and justice. When such is violated, peace is undermined. Seeking justice for others is a way to peace.
Myron R. Chartier
Some things you must always be unable to bear... Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got... Just refuse to bear them.
William Faulkner
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump 1987
The strikebreaker is the hero of American Industry.
Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University
They don't suffer. They can't even speak English.
George F. Baer, Railroad Industrialist, answering a reporters' question about the suffering of starving miners
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould, railroad magnate, before the 1886 strike on his Southwestern system
I have nothing to hide, therefore I can hide it.
Joseph V. Vitorria, chairman of Avis, explaining why the "employee-owned" company does not give its workers information about executive salaries
The harder they come, the harder they fall.
Jimmy Cliff
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mohandas K. Gandhi 1948
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi
I'm not black but there's times I wish I could say I wasn't white.
Frank Zappa
I told my friends of the cloth that I did not believe Christ was meek and lowly but a real living, vital agitator who went into the temple with a lash and a krout and whipped the oppressors of the poor, routed them out of the doors and spilled their blood and got silver on the floor. He told the robbed and misruled and exploited and driven people to disobey their plunderers, he denounced the profiteers, and it was for this that they nailed his quivering body to the cross and spiked it to the gates of Jerusalem, not because he told them to love one another. That was harmless doctrine. But when he touched their profits and denounced them before their people he was marked for crucifixion.
Eugene V. Debs 1919
The earth is for all the people. That is the demand.
The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand.
The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand.
The elimination of rent, interest, profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people. That is the demand.
Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand.
The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, or ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime - the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood, the beginning of man. That is the demand.
Eugene V. Debs
Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness. It shows that something is wrong in the system of the government that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved.
Thomas Paine 1792
If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.
Eugene Debs
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
P. J. O'Rourke 1991
We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of this start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.
Carson McCullers 1940
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.
Thomas Jefferson 1814
But we, you and I, cannot afford the luxury of cynicism, for labor is lost without optimism. We are here because we are not yet too cynical to believe we can't change the world. Because we are hopeful that the future can eradicate the injustices of the present. To be here is to be angry that our government has abandoned us; to be here is to commit ourselves, and our votes, to changing that government and bringing back the American dream of liberty and justice for all.
And to be here is to believe in solidarity, to believe that together we have the power to make a difference, to believe that our collective voices can shout down the wall of cynicism and indifference that keep us from what is rightfully ours.
Ed Asner, actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1984
Kanske skulle vi alla behöva en Philip Seymoure Hoffman som påminde oss då och då. Som sa att ”Det här är den här scenen i filmen där du hjälper mig”. Då skulle vardagen kanske kunna bli lite mer som på film.
Lena Sundström
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental please for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
Eugene V. Debs
After god had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which he made the scab... A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue.
Jack London
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow, U.S. lawyer and writer, 1909
The hospital strikers have demonstrated that you don't get a job done unless you show the Man you're not afraid.
Malcolm X, speaking at a rally in support of 1199 striking hospital workers in New York 1962
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
Albert Einstein on why he joined the American Federation of Teachers
On their side the workers had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets.
Mother Jones
If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do would be to join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing moves in the city,
without our say-so
Let the bosses curse, let the papers cry
This morning I saw it happen
With these ancient eyes of mine
Without our say-so
Nothing moves but the tide!
Rob Rosenthal, during Seattle general strike of 1919
The Labor Movement; the folks who brought you the weekend
From a bumper sticker, 1995
Better to starve fighting than to starve working
A slogan of the Lawrence, Massachusetts strike of 1912
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.
Mother Jones
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a
corporation.
Howard Scott
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglas 1886
We are neither civilized nor christianized when we build an institution and support a condition that manufactures criminals.
Mother Jones on prisons
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
Heed this cry that comes from the hearts of men. Organize the Unorganized.
John L. Lewis 1935
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Chinese proverb
Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones
If you make yourself a floorcloth, people will wipe their feet on you.
Creole proverb, British Honduras
The man who has got everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. Philip Randolph
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglas, Abolitionist
Take it easy - But take it.
Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers
I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
Mark Twain
The real patriot is the person who is not afraid to criticize the defective policies of the country which he loves.
Joseph J. Fahey
There will be no nuclear war. There's too much real estate involved.
Frank Zappa
I can't see how not wanting to blow up the world is un-American
William Winpisinger, President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
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