Leader Quotes

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Good words will not give me back my children.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.