BROTHERHOOD
'Brotherhood of Man' by Nathan J Rapoport
If you come only to help me, you can go back home. But if you consider my struggle as part of your struggle for survival, then maybe we can work together.—Aboriginal wise woman
Did you know unions are what brought races and genders together more than any other type of organization, including government? We’re all brothers and sisters in the union. And we don’t have to be forced into this unity. In the common struggle for a better life, a decent income and respectable retirement, the divisions fade away.--Loren Adams, Arkansas Postal Workers Union Editor, The Arkansas Postal Worker
If nothing we do matters...then all that matters is what we do. Cause that's all there is. What we do now. Today. The smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.—Angel (TV series Angel, from the episode "Epiphany")
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.—Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our education system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.--Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
[T]he most memorable concern of mankind is the guts it takes to face the sunlight again.—Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
If we continue to buy imports...where will our children work?—bumper sticker
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.—Edmund Burke (attributed)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.—Leo Buscaglia
The Union is not a fee-for-service organization, it is a family.—Sue Carney, APWU Director of Human Relations
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.— Cesar Chavez
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.— Cesar Chavez
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.— Cesar Chavez
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.—Frank Moore Colby
What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?—Elvis Costello
Did you know unions are what brought races and genders together more than any other type of organization, including government? We’re all brothers and sisters in the union. And we don’t have to be forced into this unity. In the common struggle for a better life, a decent income and respectable retirement, the divisions fade away.--Loren Adams, Arkansas Postal Workers Union Editor, The Arkansas Postal Worker
If nothing we do matters...then all that matters is what we do. Cause that's all there is. What we do now. Today. The smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.—Angel (TV series Angel, from the episode "Epiphany")
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.—Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our education system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.--Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
[T]he most memorable concern of mankind is the guts it takes to face the sunlight again.—Charles Bukowski, poet and postal worker, author of Post Office
If we continue to buy imports...where will our children work?—bumper sticker
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.—Edmund Burke (attributed)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.—Leo Buscaglia
The Union is not a fee-for-service organization, it is a family.—Sue Carney, APWU Director of Human Relations
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.— Cesar Chavez
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.— Cesar Chavez
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.— Cesar Chavez
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.—Frank Moore Colby
What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?—Elvis Costello
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5 Union Brothers
It is when you have done your
work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you
begin to live.—Eugene V. Debs
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.—Eugene V. Debs
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.—Albert Einstein
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed.—Dwight D. Eisenhower
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.—Samuel Gompers
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.—Samuel Gompers, on the 8 hour work day
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.—Edward E. Hale
The ongoing fight for justice does not end on an American factory floor. It extends to many regions of the world. We are all exploited by these global companies, by globalization.—Ed Havaich, GE worker and Union member
What is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole of the Law, all else is commentary.—Rabbi Hillel
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.—Sidney Hillman
Don’t let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he’s a friend of labor.— Jimmy Hoffa (attributed)
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.— Robert Green Ingersoll
It's no use trying to be clever--we are all clever here; just try to be kind--a little kind.—F.J. Foakes Jackson
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few (born) to ride them.—Thomas Jefferson
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.—Eugene V. Debs
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.—Albert Einstein
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed.—Dwight D. Eisenhower
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.—Samuel Gompers
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.—Samuel Gompers, on the 8 hour work day
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.—Edward E. Hale
The ongoing fight for justice does not end on an American factory floor. It extends to many regions of the world. We are all exploited by these global companies, by globalization.—Ed Havaich, GE worker and Union member
What is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole of the Law, all else is commentary.—Rabbi Hillel
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.—Sidney Hillman
Don’t let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he’s a friend of labor.— Jimmy Hoffa (attributed)
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.— Robert Green Ingersoll
It's no use trying to be clever--we are all clever here; just try to be kind--a little kind.—F.J. Foakes Jackson
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few (born) to ride them.—Thomas Jefferson
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We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.—Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
We are American workers and, most importantly, we are human beings!—Moe Lepore, Boston Metro Area Local APWU (1985)
How lucky am I?—Moe Lepore, President Boston Metro Area Local APWU
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.—John L. Lewis
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.—Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.—Abraham Lincoln
The day you no longer burn with love, many others will die of the cold.—Mauriac
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.—Martin Niemoeller
There is an innate spring of healthy action in every human being who has not been crushed and pinched by poverty and drudgery from before his birth, that impels him onward and upward.—Lucy Parsons
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.-- Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.-- Plato
What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.— Edgar Allen Poe
Too Old to Work--Too Young to Die!—Walter Reuther devised slogan in the UAW fight for pension plans
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.—Walter Reuther
There is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.—Walter Reuther
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Civil Rights movement just burst on the United States right on the tube. We saw images of young people being attacked by dogs, by powerful water-cannons. And they faced their fears, they overcame their fear by holding one another. That was a lesson that what we need, the strength that we need, we can find in one another. It is, of course, an image of great courage, and I have not had to face the kinds of things that those people had to face. But if they were willing to face that, then I felt by that very thing both shamed and inspired to do what I could do. And to take the lesson of holding one another as a way it could be done.—Mario Savio
To quote scripture, from First Thessalonians, “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” That’s what a union does.— Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO (2021)
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. —Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.—Socrates
Let him who would move the world first move himself.—Socrates
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.—Lao Tzu (attributed)
Conduct your triumph as a funeral.—Lao Tzu (attributed)
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.—Lech Walesa
The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.—Wendell Lewis Willkie
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.—John Wooden, college basketball coach
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.—Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
We are American workers and, most importantly, we are human beings!—Moe Lepore, Boston Metro Area Local APWU (1985)
How lucky am I?—Moe Lepore, President Boston Metro Area Local APWU
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.—John L. Lewis
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.—Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.—Abraham Lincoln
The day you no longer burn with love, many others will die of the cold.—Mauriac
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.—Martin Niemoeller
There is an innate spring of healthy action in every human being who has not been crushed and pinched by poverty and drudgery from before his birth, that impels him onward and upward.—Lucy Parsons
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.-- Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.-- Plato
What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.— Edgar Allen Poe
Too Old to Work--Too Young to Die!—Walter Reuther devised slogan in the UAW fight for pension plans
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.—Walter Reuther
There is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.—Walter Reuther
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Civil Rights movement just burst on the United States right on the tube. We saw images of young people being attacked by dogs, by powerful water-cannons. And they faced their fears, they overcame their fear by holding one another. That was a lesson that what we need, the strength that we need, we can find in one another. It is, of course, an image of great courage, and I have not had to face the kinds of things that those people had to face. But if they were willing to face that, then I felt by that very thing both shamed and inspired to do what I could do. And to take the lesson of holding one another as a way it could be done.—Mario Savio
To quote scripture, from First Thessalonians, “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” That’s what a union does.— Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO (2021)
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. —Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.—Socrates
Let him who would move the world first move himself.—Socrates
People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.—Lao Tzu (attributed)
Conduct your triumph as a funeral.—Lao Tzu (attributed)
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.—Lech Walesa
The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.—Wendell Lewis Willkie
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.—John Wooden, college basketball coach