Joseph James Ettor famous quotes

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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
-- Joseph James Ettor

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If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .
-- Joseph James Ettor

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Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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 statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Joseph James Ettor famous quotes

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