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“If particular care and attention are not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

Abigail Adams writing to husband John Adams in 1776

UC Radio: 2015.12.15

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I could get rid of all the workers who earn… $15 an hour and bring in a contract house that will pay their laborers $7 an hour.  But that breaks the spirit and trust of the employees.  If you close a factory because you can get work done for $2 an hour elsewhere, you break the American Dream.

Aaron Feuerstein CEO, Malden Mills, Inc., 1986

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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions… Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

A. Phillip Randolph: President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

UC Radio: 2016.04.15; 2015.06.18

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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. Phillip Randolph, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

UC Radio: 2015.08.25; 2010 Directory

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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

A. Phillip Randolph, President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

UC Radio: 2017.05.30; 2016.08.25; 2015.10.09

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