All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

Another item that appeared in the backyard was rabbits. Bear would chase them away.

Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Make your links from blog comments genuine.

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare