The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Power is the flower of organization.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize.

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.