"This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress."

-- Leon Jouhaux

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“I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.”
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
“Hounds follow those who feed them.”
“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.”
“There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.”
“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”

Source : Commencement address at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2009.
“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”
“In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.”

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