George Meany famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.
-- George Meany

#Giving Up #Fighting #Odds
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.
-- George Meany

#Justice #Goal #Wages
The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
-- George Meany

#Rights #Threat #Persistent
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
-- George Meany

#Struggle #Labels #Pieces
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
-- George Meany

#Gains #Economics #Profession
It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
-- George Meany

#Government #Impossible
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
-- George Meany

#Doubt #Bills #Ingenuity
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
-- George Meany

#Experts #Financial #Economics
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
-- George Meany

#Rights #People #Freedom Of Speech
We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.
-- George Meany

#People #Odor #Heard

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