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John L. Lewis

"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."

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"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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Amber Hurdle

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

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Amber Hurdle

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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Amber Hurdle

"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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Amber Hurdle

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

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Amber Hurdle

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

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John L. Lewis
"The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few."

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John L. Lewis
"The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands."

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John L. Lewis
"Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born."

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John L. Lewis
"While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made."

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John L. Lewis
"But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic."

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John L. Lewis
"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."

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John L. Lewis
"Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit."

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John L. Lewis
"The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government."

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"The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry."

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John L. Lewis
"Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied."

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