Bill Haywood famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
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The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
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Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
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To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
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If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.
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A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
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The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
-- Bill Haywood
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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
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When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
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My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
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