15 Quotes by Harry Bridges

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    There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

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    Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

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    Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

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    I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

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    I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

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    Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

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    No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

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