"There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense."
-Arthur Scargill
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"The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're 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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"All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have."
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"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."
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"Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"Leadership must be established from the top down."
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"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."
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"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on."
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"Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example."
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