From The Director's Chair--Barb Fettig, candidate for NEA Director: MEA-MFT Endorsements for Fettig as NEA Director

Monday, March 23, 2009

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." -Dwight Eisenhower
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more opportunities to cultivate our better natures. . .” Samuel Gompers, AFL Founder and President, 1893
"There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed." Abraham Lincoln
“...Trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education...for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men." Clarence Darrow
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"All that serves labor serves the nation. All that harms is treason . . . If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. . . There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the other." Abraham Lincoln