Unions Quotes - Page 19

• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It was a way to try and shut down what the unions were negotiating for, like better hours and pay. [Dalton] Trumbo and his friends joined the Communists mostly for these reasons.

  Jay Roach

  Trying, Pay, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.

  Barbara Boxer

  Grief, Fighting, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.

  Duncan Green

  Sports, War, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

  Duncan Green

  Bigs, Trade, Hankering

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Brave New World, Entering, Peaches

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

  Donald Tusk

  Rights, Democracy, United States

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

  Donald Tusk

  Years, People, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Today, Evaluation

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as follows.

  Trevor Noah

  Kings, House, Majesty

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember my father telling me that just like Troy, he could get me in with the water department where he worked in New York. He talked about how he could get me on the job, and if I stayed 25 years, I could probably work my way up to be a supervisor and how it was a good union and all of the benefits and that I was going to make $20,000 in 50 years or whatever it was. He couldn't see that far.

  Denzel Washington

  Jobs, New York, Father

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Independent, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, New York, Squares

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Soviet Union, Declaration

  Source: www.rt.com

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• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  Rick Perry

  Germany, Looks, World

  Source: stream.org

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• The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

  Angela Merkel

  Agreement, America, Important

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and every one must be given an opportunity to participate, which is why Germany's fate in many ways depends on the firmness of its alliance with NATO, with the European Union.

  Angela Merkel

  Fate, Opportunity, Important

  Source: time.com

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• While we're members of the European Union, we don't have an immigration policy. We can't have an immigration policy. It's a charade for people to pretend we do.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Immigration, Members

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Heart, Giving

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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 was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.

  Sergio Leone

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

  Nat Hentoff

  Daughter, Years, Two

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Saving, Lovers

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating for the impotence of individual resistance.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Labour Movement, Friendly, Demand

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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