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Harry Bridges Quotes: I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
         

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.


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The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."



No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.



Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.



There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.



I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.



Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.





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Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.




Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

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To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.



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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.



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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.



Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.



Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

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We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

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