"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."

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Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

John L. Lewis

#Tired Quotes #Agony Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.”
“It is your choices that make you uniquely you....”
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”
“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.”

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“I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.”
“Don't let the government win.”

Source : Speech during his last syndicated FM broadcast, December 16, 2005.

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