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"I take care of my people. You bring em trouble, and youre a dead man. Sleep tight, Kenehan."
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Matewan"You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out aint a union, its a goddam club! They got you fightin white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there aint but two sides in this world - them that work and them that dont. You work, they dont. Thats all you got to know about the enemy."
Matewan is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was 412 at the 2020 census, down from 499 in 2010. The Norfolk Southern Railway's Pocahontas District passes through the town. It was a key site of the Coal Wars and the location of the Battle of Matewan in 1920.
"I take care of my people. You bring em trouble, and youre a dead man. Sleep tight, Kenehan."
"Fellas, we’re in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can’t get their coal out of the ground without us cause we’re a union! Cause we’re the workers damn it and we take care of each other!"
"Now you watch your mouth, peckerwood. Ive been called nigger, and I cant help thats the way white folks is, but I aint never been called no scab!"
"[Narrating] It were 19 and 20 in the southwest fields and things was tough. The miners was trying to bring the union to West Virginia and the coal operators and their gun thugs was set on keeping them out."
"Ive met Mr. Felts. I wouldnt piss on him if his heart was on fire or ice was burned with paintings."
"David Strathairn — Sid Hatfield"
"Since the Chernobyl accident, we have worked all over the globe to raise nuclear safety performance. And since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, we have worked with even greater intensity on nuclear security. On both fronts, we have built an international network of legal norms and performance standards. But our most tangible impact has been on the ground. Hundreds of missions, in every part of the world, with international experts making sure nuclear activities are safe and secure. I am very proud of the 2,300 hard working men and women that make up the IAEA staff — the colleagues with whom I share this honour. Some of them are here with me today. We come from over 90 countries. We bring many different perspectives to our work. Our diversity is our strength. We are limited in our authority. We have a very modest budget. And we have no armies. But armed with the strength of our convictions, we will continue to speak truth to power. And we will continue to carry out our mandate with independence and objectivity."
"The office is designed for "work," not productivity. Work can be defined as "anything youd rather not be doing." Productivity is a different matter. Telecommuting substitutes two hours of productivity for ten hours of work."
"He found his best satisfaction not in pleasure but in toil. He could live with little food, little sleep - and very little dalliance. The one thing he could not dispense with was work, and work in prodigious quantities."
"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
"Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in The great Creator from his work returnd Magnificent, his six days work, a world!"
"Work work, work, work, die. Youd think I was a protestant."