Famous quotes containing the words general strike, general, strike and/or called:
“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
—A.J. (Arthur James)
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other’s strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)