Barab Wins Quote Contest
Wednesday, March 16, 2005(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Jordan Barab is this week’s Quote Contest winner, correctly identifying
Abraham Lincoln as the source of the quote: “I am glad to see that a system of
labor prevails in New England under which laborers can strike when they want to,
where they are not obliged to work under all circumstances, and are not tied
down and obliged to labor whether you pay them or not. I like the system
which lets a man quit when he wants to, and wish it might prevail
everywhere.” Honorable mentions to Mark Cohen, Michael Sprinker (who
notes that “(fellow Republican) Tom DeLay would be calling for the expulsion
of anyone who said this now), Jennifer O'Dell, Scott Wilson, Hunter Phillips,
Kate Clifford, Robert Lucore, Calvin Goddard Zon, Ryan Genovese, Alan Freeman,
Jeff Skinner , Mike Blain, Bob Jensen, Loretta Kane (who reports that Lincoln
said it in New Haven, CT while giving an anti-slavery speech), Reza Namdar &
Patti Devlin.