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

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

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.

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

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

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