George Meany Quotes

• Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

  George Meany

  Giving Up, Fighting, Odds

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• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

  George Meany

  Dignity Of Work, Justice, Goal

  Archie Robinson, George Meany (1981). “George Meany and his times: a biography”, Simon & Schuster

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• One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

  George Meany

  Rights, People, Freedom Of Speech

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• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  George Meany

  Struggle, Labels, Pieces

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• Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

  George Meany

  Doubt, Bills, Ingenuity

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• The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

  George Meany

  Rights, Threat, Persistent

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• It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

  George Meany

  Government, Impossible, Bargains

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• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  George Meany

  Experts, Financial, Economics

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• We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

  George Meany

  People, Odor, Heard

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• The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

  George Meany

  Gains, Economics, Profession

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