The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

This is a very unfortunate event and an unfortunate day in the history of labor relations in this city.

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.