General Strike Called

Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:

    When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.”
    John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    Too long we prayed
    God in the thunder,
    wonderful though he be
    and our father;
    too long, too long in the rain,
    cowering lest he strike again.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Thank Heaven! the crisis —
    The danger, is past,
    And the lingering illness,
    Is over at last M,
    And the fever called “Living”
    Is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)