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Leon Jouhaux

"In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe."

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"In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe."

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Donna Grant

"Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!"

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Donna Grant

"Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care."

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Donna Grant

"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air-the song of sweet, still silence rare."

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Donna Grant

"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."

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Donna Grant

"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."

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Donna Grant

"O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love."

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Donna Grant

"The world is a peaceful place.We make it hateful by forgetting our grace."

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Donna Grant

"Pursue peace and harmony with all men."

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Donna Grant

"If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Become a fountain of peace to spread the flow of joy to everyone."

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Leon Jouhaux
"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."

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Leon Jouhaux
"True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep."

Nature

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Leon Jouhaux
"This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress."

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Leon Jouhaux
"The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise."

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Leon Jouhaux
"This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization."

Conflict

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Leon Jouhaux
"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."

Peace

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Leon Jouhaux
"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer."

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Leon Jouhaux
"On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union."

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Leon Jouhaux
"A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one."

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Leon Jouhaux
"Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials."

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