"The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life."

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Source : "Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement". Book by Arthur B. Shostak, p. 190, 1991.

Lane Kirkland

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“I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.”
“It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.”
“There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.”
“There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
“I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.”
“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”
“There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.”

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