“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.” WayCountryUseWishOpinionArmsGainsUnionsWestNuclearPropagandaSovietSuperioritySoviet UnionPublic OpinionDoing Nothing Author:James Callaghan
“If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.” IfsWorldInfluencePositionExerciseGainsUnionsBlowCommunistLanesTransportStaggeringFree World Author:Robert Kennedy
“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.” PeopleWritingKindChildrenPersonsTwoStatesWould BeLawGoalTeachCasesTeacherSacrificeExampleTypeProtectGainsOrganizationFunctionUnionsIncludingInvestingIronRepresentativesIncompetent Author:Jerry Pournelle
“Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.” NeedsHelpingBigsTogetherPeaceSupportGainsUnionsBurdenShouldersConcreteEuropean Union Author:Edi Rama
“It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.” GainsUnionsSoldierPainfulTerritorySovietElitesSoviet UnionAfghan Author:Sergei Ivanov
“Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.” NeedsSelfEnjoyCan DoEffortSeaGainsUnionsPsychicsInner LifeSparklingHigh Places Author:Vernon Howard
“An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.” LooksPersonsSelfDivineMastersVictoryGainsUnionsRenunciation Author:Madeleine Sophie Barat
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room” IfsMenWayWantShouldI CanMomentsYoungCertainRoomsWonderNovelImagineLimitsShadowGainsLonelyUnionsWorkersYoung ManRevelationsHotelRopeAppearingFlatteringAlleysHotel RoomsImmediacyLonely Women Author:James Vance
“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsStatesWould BeLastsAmericaUsedPoorFivePolicyExampleMovementKingsSpringGainsConcernedUnionsTrackJewCriticalInnocentCollectivesTreatmentAccountabilityMarchMassiveSovietForeign PolicySoviet UnionLutherSurveillanceApprovedDronesArab SpringInsurgencySurveillance State Author:Cornel West
“Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.” Has BeensGovernmentGrowsAbilityPovertyEconomicCostBenefitsGainsProgramStrongerRaisesUnionsWorkersDisappearMechanismWagesDimes Author:Andy Stern