Unions Quotes - Page 27

• When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Glue, Paper, Western

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• Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

  Angela Davis

  Kings, Moving, Thinking

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Recognition

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• You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

  Tom DeLay

  Balance, Want, Spending

  "Meet the Press", December 12, 2003.

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• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

  Jim DeMint

  Block, Men, Civilization

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• If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

  Jacques Delors

  Government, Agreement, Employers

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• The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Connections, Tribes, Natural

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

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• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Political Will, Europe, Democracy

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• God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

  Edward Everett

  Men, Blood, Bravery

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.658

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• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Warrior, America, Ends

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• It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

  Nigel Farage

  Growth, Unemployment, Economic

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• I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

  Vera Farmiga

  Country, Dancer, Teens

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• I certainly support civil unions.

  Carly Fiorina

  Support

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• The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Done, Excuse, Menace

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Easter, West, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Creating, Black

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• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

  Edward Gibbon

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  War, Heart, Agreement

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• The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Government, Telling The Truth

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• Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

  Newt Gingrich

  Might, Carter, Soviet Union

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• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  Samuel Gompers

  Reality, Organization, Movement

  "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.

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• We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

  William Hague

  Rights, Democracy, Authority

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• I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Law, Definitions

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• A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

  Levon Helm

  Jobs, Son, Musician

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