Harry Bridges Quotes

#1. There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Harry Bridges

#2. The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

Edward Bok

#3. I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

Harry Bridges

#4. Live your life ... as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

#5. Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense

Baltasar Gracian

#6. I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

Cher

#7. Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did ... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#8. Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Harry Bridges

#9. No man has ever been born a Negro hater,
a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater.
Nature refuses to be involved in such
suicidal practices.

Harry Bridges

#10. The fame aspect of winning the Masters ... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Mike Weir

#11. My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Victoria Gotti

#12. Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

Harry Bridges

#13. I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

Boris Johnson

#14. There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Harry Bridges

#15. I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

Richard Matheson

#16. The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

John Berger

#17. I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Matthew Simpson

#18. I'm a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they're in TV shows or movies or they're writers or YouTubers. Their lives are not perfect.

Tyler Oakley

#19. I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

Harry Bridges

#20. I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

Harry Bridges

#21. The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

Harry Bridges

#22. Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

Harry Bridges