Walter Reuther quotes

There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. (Walter Reuther)
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win. View quote
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Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie. View quote
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There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls. View quote
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One thing we must do, most of all, in the future, is to harness the atom for peace and get all of the miners out of the earth. View quote
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We must negotiate from unity and strength and stay firm on matters of principle and flexible on matters of procedure. View quote
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Freedom is an indivisible value and when the freedom of one is threatened the freedom of all is in jeopardy. View quote
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We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simplest fundamental term-human survival. View quote
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We have a saying in the union: "If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck." That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler. View quote
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You cannot save democracy in a vacuum of idealism. You have got to be motivated by idealism, but you have got to also be fighting the hard problem of practical politics. View quote
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The great challenge before us is to find a way to get people and nations working together in the positive and rewarding task of peace as they have repeatedly joined together in the senseless and destructive waging of war. (Walter Reuther)
We must learn to judge people, not by their color or race or creed, but rather by their worth as human beings. View quote
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The struggle against racial intolerance and racial discrimination and bigotry must be waged everywhere in the world wherever such immoral and ugly practices exist. View quote
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Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression. View quote
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Democratic nations must seek and find unity in diversity, while Communists achieve unity through conformity. View quote
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We believe that it is not enough to fight against the things that we oppose-we must fight with equal courage and equal dedication for the things that we believe in. View quote
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Free labor understands and acts in the knowledge the the struggle for peace and the struggle for human freedom are inseparably tied together with the struggle for social justice. View quote
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The great challenge before us is to find a way to use the bright promise of science and technology in a massive retaliation against poverty, hunger, and social injustice in the world. View quote
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Let us never forget that he who would serve God must prove that he is worthy by serving man. View quote
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All the learned men with all their wisdom, with all of the legal niceties they can put together on the finest of parchment, cannot produce one ton of steel. View quote
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Free management must realize that in a free society there is no substitute for the voluntary discharge of social responsibility. (Walter Reuther)
We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America. View quote
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I am for the state only doing what people are unable to do in the absence of government action. View quote
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We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pension plans to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to have to pay them to people who do need them. View quote
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We will not meet the problems of tomorrow by talking about yesterday's concepts. View quote
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