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"I still remember the thrill I felt when I was given my first box of business cards."

"Recently, David and I were going to participate in a labor demonstration at Walmart, and I asked David if he wanted to wear a cap with the name of a union on it."

"Some time ago, I wrote a piece that I called 'We Are Outliving Our Bodies.'"

"It is December, 2015, eleven months before the presidential election."

"I recently read an excellent piece by Elaine Bernard of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program in the Fall 2008 issue of DSA’s Democratic Left."

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "

"I started writing this on August 28, 2005, the 42nd anniversary of the March on Washington."

"In 1952, I was working as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, ILGWU, which represented custom tailors and alterations workers in New York City."

"Over the years, I have written about various people I have known—friends, colleagues, etc. Each of us is unique, and I have tried to find and describe that uniqueness."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…