A. Philip Randolph Quotes

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

A. Philip Randolph

• Essence
• Uplifting
• Labour Movement

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Loyalty

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Forever

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Acting

• You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

  

  Naomi Wolf

• I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Good
  • Sleep

• I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

  

  Marian Seldes

• I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Freedom

• I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Work

• There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

  

  Picabo Street

• I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Real
  • School
  • Remember

• Oh, I paint all the time.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Time

• I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Different
  • Stop

• I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Money

• In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I'd head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • Home
  • Opinion
  • Improvement

• What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Name

• Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Why
  • Way
  • Block

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  

  George Sarton
  • Achievement
  • Essence
  • Replaced

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Drink
  • Straw
  • Stirs

• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Essence
  • Uplifting
  • Labour Movement