I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
