Sidney Hillman quotes
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“We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.”
-- Sidney HillmanSource : The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.
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“Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.”
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“I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.”
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“Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.”
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”
Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
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“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
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“So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.”
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“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
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