Quote by Arthur Scargill
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transf

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day. – Arthur Scargill

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Theres a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. – Arthur Scargill

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strength
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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, theyre quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. – Arthur Scargill

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Leadership
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. – Arthur Scargill

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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. – Vaclav Havel

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Unfortunately, President Obamas failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it. – Marco Rubio

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Government shouldnt tell you whom to marry. – Michael Bloomberg

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson

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