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"I feel that I have known Irving Howe all my life, although I may have been in the same room with him five times and exchanged no more than a few sentences with him each time."

"From my earliest days, I was convinced that we were caught up in the class struggle."

"Many groups and organizations have spoken out in favor of the public workers of Wisconsin when Gov. Scott Walker announced his plan that substantially cuts the benefits and eliminates nearly all collective bargaining rights for state workers."

"One evening, toward the end of August in 1968, I received a call from someone named Stan Weir, explaining that he had just arrived in Washington from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and that a mutual friend gave him my name."

"Since 1889, May 1 has been the official workers’ holiday throughout the industrial world."

"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."

"I came to Boston from DC in 1979, when I was appointed Director of the NE Region of the US Civil Rights Commission."

"It was a quiet evening toward the end of March, 2014."

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