Trade Unionism Quotes

#1. It is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

Rose Schneiderman

#2. Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Benito Mussolini

#4. To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Bill Shorten

#5. The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

A. Philip Randolph

#6. In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

Frances O'Grady

#7. What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

George Bernard Shaw

#8. This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

Leon Jouhaux

#9. I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Charles Kennedy

#10. Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Richard Attenborough

#12. The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Dogen

#13. I could never be your god
And I don't even think I want the job anymore

Stone Sour

#14. To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Roger Kahn

#15. Is this what's going to make you happy?'
'How different everything could have been, if you had thought to ask me that before.

Marissa Meyer

#16. I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Juliette Binoche

#17. [Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words ... Really terrible.

Grumpy Cat

#18. Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.
I abjure advice-giver.

Frank Bidart

#19. Education is realisation of our true potential

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Chuck D