John L. Lewis citations

John Llewellyn Lewis est un syndicaliste américain qui fut le président de l'United Mine Workers of America de 1920 à 1960, et le président du Congrès des organisations industrielles de 1935 à 1940. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. février 1880 – 11. juin 1969
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John L. Lewis: Citations en anglais

“I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.”

Speech at United Mine Workers convention at Indianapolis (March 1940), quoted in Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren R. Van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography (1986), p. 278

“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”

When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954