Quotes About Unionist

#1. While I don't read the same thing every day, you know, tonight I am reading some of the speeches of the early unionist fathers." "Why ever would anyone want to do that?" "I don't know. I don't even know if I want to read them. I'm just reading them.

Anonymous

#2. The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Ramsay MacDonald

#3. Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

H.W. Brands

#4. There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

John Hume

#5. There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that.

Dick Spring

#6. If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Dick Spring

#7. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Martin Niemoller

#8. My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Robert Harris

#9. I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist Assembly group of MLAs when I have control of the whip.

Mike Nesbitt

#10. The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.

Pope Francis

#11. I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. ... It's the party at present in power.

Peter Ustinov

#12. I'm a passionate trade unionist.

Richard Attenborough

#13. I am a proud trade unionist.

Jeremy Corbyn

#14. The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Ernest Bevin

#15. My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

Alan King

#16. The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews.

Alec Reid

#17. When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

James Nesbitt

#18. We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.

Bonar Law

#19. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

Martin McGuinness

#20. The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

William Howard Taft

#21. I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

Peter Hain

#22. So it was with court jesters in the Middle Ages; they could alert the king to dangers that the ministers would not dare to comment on because they were afraid of losing their positions.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Desmond Tutu

#24. Even after months of healing, it doesn't take much to make me bleed

Stephanie Oakes

#25. a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#26. Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Thomas L. Friedman

#27. Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Francis Schaeffer

#28. Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

Laurence Olivier