#strike

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#because #class background #experienced #going #having

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#camp #during #especially #father #her

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#convinced #could #dying #fellow #fellow americans

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. ↗

— John Oates

#retreat #strike #you

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#could #days #done #four #general

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#eyes #fire #form #heart #man

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bodies #calls #cherish #determine #dream

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#any #athletes #brain #clubs #days

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks