All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of bread — bread for the family, something to eat. Bread to a man with a hungry family comes first— before his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!
John L. Lewis, lider trabalhista norte-americano, citado em Federal Food Programs: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First [-second] Session - Página 1124, de United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, United States, Senate, Congress - 1973
John L. Lewis frases e citações
John L. Lewis: Frases em inglês
Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)
Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)
Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)
Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)
Speech at United Mine Workers convention at Indianapolis (March 1940), quoted in Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren R. Van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography (1986), p. 278
“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”
When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954
Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)