Harry Bridges Quotes

A collection of quotes by Harry Bridges.

Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American labor leader and activist, born on July 28, 1901. He is best known for founding and leading the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in the 1930s. Bridges played a pivotal role in advocating for workers' rights, particularly for longshoremen, and fought to improve their working conditions and wages through strikes, negotiations, and organizing campaigns. Despite facing numerous legal challenges and being labeled as a communist sympathizer, Bridges remained committed to empowering workers and promoting social justice until his death on March 30, 1990.

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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Harry Bridges

Equality