No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

- Harry Bridges

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

- Harry Bridges

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

- Harry Bridges

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

- Harry Bridges

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

- Harry Bridges

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

- Harry Bridges

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

- Harry Bridges

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk t…

- Harry Bridges

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 h…

- Harry Bridges