Sidney Hillman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Hillman

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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
-- Sidney Hillman

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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.
-- Sidney Hillman

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Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
-- Sidney Hillman

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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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.
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was â€” but I wanted to be there.
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Sidney Hillman famous quotes

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