Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again.
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog.
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.