Unions Quotes - Page 35

• Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.

  Andy Stern

  Justice, Community, Movement

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• Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Environmental, Birth Control, Protection

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, April 21, 2005.

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• We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

  Ed Rendell

  Opportunity, Second Chance, People

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• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

  Novalis

  Self, World, Determined

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Silly, Animal, Agriculture

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• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Sex, Racist, Discrimination

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• Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

  Clive James

  Classic, States, Blokes

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• Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Female, Movement, Facts

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• Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Purple, Oil, Fire

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• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Simple, Thinking, Names

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• Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the NUM as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

  Jimmy Reid

  Fighting, Years, Choices

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• The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Whole

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• I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

  Bill de Blasio

  Positive Relationship, Respectful, Labor Union

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Giving, Humanity

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Husband, Real, Sacrifice

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• The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Journey, Destiny

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.

  Joyce Brothers

  Relationship, Challenges, Needs

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• I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Wine, Trade Zone, Joining

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Creation, Balkans, Cases

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• I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

  Cass Sunstein

  Sex, Thinking, States

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• Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Soul, Unbroken

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book II of III”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

  Andrzej Wajda

  People, Waiting, Culture

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• There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.

  Carrie Prejean

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Carrie Prejean (2009). “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

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• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Looks, Constitution, States

  Texas v. White (1869)

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• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  Salmon P. Chase

  Perfect, Made, Perpetual

  "Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 12, 1869.

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