"The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor."

-- A. Philip Randolph

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“That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scaleâ€”bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellionâ€”all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the worldâ€™s most seriously corrupt kings.”
“I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.”
“Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.”

Source : "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.
“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
“The living usually won't see the dead.”
“The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,”
“Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.”
“There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.”

Source : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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