Daisy Pitkin > Quotes

“Anger is powerful, it’s true, but care for one another is, too. And care for one another, unlike anger (or unlike anger for me), is continually renewable — it becomes both an engine for the fight and a destination for it, elemental to the new world the fight demands…Care for one another functions this way mainly because it allows for hope, which is the substance of solidarity.”
― Daisy Pitkin, On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

“This moment is rife with opportunity, rife with the sacred responsibility unions have to be at the forefront of the movement for justice that is already underway, to ensure that workers are at the center of defining and creating their own liberation.”
― Daisy Pitkin, On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union