Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes

#1. History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#2. As you live, so you die

Lao-Tzu

#3. We all have secrets.

Joanna Nadin

#4. Open your eyes. Look at me. I need you to see what you do to me.

M.J. Carnal

#5. We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#6. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#7. When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

Catherine Anderson

#8. I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

Charles Frazier

#9. If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

LeCrae

#10. A labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#11. The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#12. To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#13. We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point.
I look at Meredith, relaxed in her ivory gown, my sister is all grown up. I'm grateful we did our growing up together.

Steven Rowley

#14. That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Tony Campolo

#15. A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#16. The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#17. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...

Rajneesh