"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."

-- Rose Schneiderman

#Real Quotes #Progress Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.”
“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”
“Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.”
“I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3”
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.”
“Valve wouldnâ€™t have gotten its start”
“Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.”
“It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?”

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