The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. - George Meany

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Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the U. S. Department of Education nearly 40 years ago.

George Meany

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

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Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

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The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

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Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

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Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

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United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

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