Quotes About Solidarity

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.

My dad was in a union.

I am a proud trade unionist.

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

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.