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Birthdays
Mahatma Ghandi
Groucho Marx
1863
President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day. |
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1946
The U.S. Navy seized oil refineries in order to break a 20-state post-war
strike. |
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1995 : Boeing machinists strike
1986
1,700 female flight attendants won an 18-year lawsuit (which included
$37 million in damages) against United Arilines, which had fired
them for getting married. |
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When more and more people
are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge |
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The brain is a wonderful organ;
it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not
stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost |
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I think computer viruses should
count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the
only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've
created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking |
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1933
18,000 cotton workers went on strikein Pixley, California. Four were
killed before a pay-hike was finally won. |
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1898
Fourteen were killed, 25 wounded in violence resulting when Virden,
Illinois mine owners attempted to break a strike by importing 200
nonunion black workers.
1902
Fourteen miners were killed and 22 wounded by scabherders at Pana,
Illinois. |
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The conspicuously wealthy turn
up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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The modern conservative is
engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that
is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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A person hears only what they
understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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In science, "fact" can
only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse
to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start
to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in
physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould |
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Consultants have credibility
because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams |
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Join the union, girls, and together
say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony |
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Anyone who has struggled with
poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin |
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1915
25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote. |
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1940 : Advent of the eight-hour
day
1980
- Communist authorities in Poland granted recognition to the
trade union "Solidarity." It
was outlawed in 1981 after the government imposed martial law.
In 1989, it was re-legalized.
1987
The 35-member executive council of the AFL-CIO decided unanimously
to readmit the 1.6-million member Teamsters Union to its ranks.
The scandal-ridden union had been expelled from the federation
in 1957. President Jackie Presser was awaiting trial at the time,
and the U.S. Justice Department was considering removal of the
union's leadership because of possible links to organized crime. |
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The best weapon of a dictatorship
is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon
of openness.
Niels Bohr |
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The war in Iraq has as much
to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
Julian Bond |
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We can have democracy in this
country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of
a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis |
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Has there ever been a society
which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski |
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1916
On 30 October vigilantes forced
IWW speakers to run the gauntlet, subjecting them to whipping, tripping
kicking, and impalement against a spiked cattle guard at the end of
the gauntlet. In response, the IWW called for a meeting on 5 November.
When the union men arrived, they were fired on; seven people were killed,
50 were wounded, and an indeterminate number wound up missing. |
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You will die but the carbon
will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil,
and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more
on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski |
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| Sources
- Biography; Library
of Congress; Crayola;
Earth Calendar; BrainyQuote;
ButlerWebs.com; History
Channel; infoplease |