Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests which means the union bosses' interests not the members.
And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength membership strength and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
That a society controls to a greater or lesser extent the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods the particulars of that control vary from one culture to another.
The idea is we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic religious geographic political.
The Constitution as originally drawn made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
Those who suffer are not those at the top but are the less privileged members of society.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members it must inevitably fall to pieces.