The right to bargain collectively is at the bottom of social justice for the worker, as well as the sensible conduct of business affairs. The denial or observance of this right means the difference between despotism and democracy.
Quotes
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
a moment can be your heaven
an empty space your cathedral be
a time can be a meditation
a touch your soul set free
a thought can be your temple
a prayer becomes reality
a friendship can be your worship
a lover your deity
A poem I wrote many years ago.
Bill Cosby was famous not only for what he was doing with the Cosby Show– the groundbreaking, innovative way he was showing black families–but also because he was making multimultimillions of dollars a year. [He was] the first and only black person who you had ever heard of to make that kind of money while handling it with such grace. He gave me advice that lives with me to this day about signing your own checks, and I still do sign most of them. Obviously, I could afford any bills that I acquire, but you need to know what your phone and electric bills are.
Oprah Winfrey
To do any kind of creative work well, you have to run at stuff knowing that it’s usually going to fail.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
–Lily Tomlin
When we speak the truths who’s very revelation bind us in fear, not only do we free ourselves of the burden, we engage and encourage others to have the courage to come out of the shadows and say…
“Me too”.
Patrick Rhone – Speak the truth.
Sometimes the voices we miss most are the only ones we can hear, calling us out into the night, filling the darkness with howls.
At the Wedding, Dancing While We Can – Modern Love – NYTimes.com
This entire piece is, perhaps, the most heartbreaking and beautiful prose I have read in a very long time. Yet, this sentence stopped my heart still.
(via Gwen Bell)
When everything works best it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.
Charles Bukowski – Letters of Note: Don’t try
The next time someone asks me why I write, I may retort with the quote in its entirety.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt.
Samuel Ullman