"A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike."

-- Bill Haywood

#Struggle Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
“Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.”
“What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.”

Source : "Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.
“Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.”
“I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.”
“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”
“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”
“Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.”

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