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Quotes from Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO — Walter Reuther

1907–1970 United States

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Free management must realize that in a free society there is no substitute for the voluntary discharge of social responsibility.

Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)

All the learned men with all their wisdom, with all of the legal niceties they can put together on the finest of parchment, cannot produce one ton of steel.

Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)

You cannot make peace and freedom secure in the world as long as hundreds of millions of people are denied the necessities of life, so long as millions and millions of people are committed to belong to the have-not nations, and they and their children are denied the right to achieve economic and social justice.

Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)

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