Bill Haywood Quotes

#1. Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism,

Howard Zinn

#2. Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

Bill Haywood

#3. I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

K. Webster

#4. Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Bill Walton

#5. I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

Dave Attell

#6. If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

Bill Haywood

#7. Everyone deserves 100 years of good life before starting to grow old.

Patricia Gulley

#8. Ah, Brynn," Vercleese boomed at one tall, extremely thin man with a dreamy air about him and a face dusted with fine white flour. "How's the bread business?" The man pulled himself from whatever reverie gripped him and smiled wanly. "Rising, Sir Vercleese, always rising." Vercleese

Douglas W. Clark

#9. It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Jon Foreman

#10. The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.

Julian Grenfell

#11. A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Martin Luther

#12. To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

Bill Haywood

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

Bill Haywood

#14. If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

Bill Haywood

#15. We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.

Jayson Engay

#16. I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck.

Martin Shaw

#17. The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

Bill Haywood

#18. Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#19. The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.

Bill Haywood

#20. The mine owners do not find the gold ...

Bill Haywood

#21. Take the god's gift. Become the Fury.
It was time to become the monster Merik had been all along. No more numbed distance. No more fighting the Nihar temper. Only vicious, hungry heat.
One for the sake of many; vengeance for those he'd lost.

Susan Dennard

#22. It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

William James