Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. ”

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. ”

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. ”

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. ”

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. ”

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ”

Being honest with the public is how they respect you. ”

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ”

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. ”

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run. ”