Top 23 Unionists Quotes
#1. All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
William Stanley Jevons
#2. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
#3. I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
Angela Davis
#4. From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
Leon Jouhaux
#5. Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,
Raghuram Rajan
#6. I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil ... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward.
Gregory Maguire
#7. If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
Martin McGuinness
#8. The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
Johann Lamont
#9. As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
David Trimble
#10. All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill
#11. 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
#12. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Martin Niemoller
#13. Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite. As leader it is my continued commitment to dedicate our party's activity to that goal.
Wes Streeting
#14. For devout unionists, the Constitution had been framed by the people rather than created as a compact among states.
Gary W. Gallagher
#15. You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
Charles Kennedy
#16. I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Earl Browder
#17. The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
Gerry Adams
#18. All over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches,
Salman Rushdie
#19. I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
Vince McMahon
#21. Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
Deborah Meier
#22. 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
Neil Patrick Harris
#23. Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
Dalai Lama
