Grievance Quotations

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

The players association plans on filing a grievance on Chris Andersen's behalf. Our expectation is that a grievance hearing will take place in approximately two weeks.

The players' association plans on filing a grievance on Chris Andersen's behalf.

The players' association plans on filing a grievance on Chris Andersen 's behalf. Our expectation is that a grievance hearing will take place in approximately two weeks.

During a grievance hearing the union rep. Jeff Brown made a threatening comment that he would start stalking me to see how I liked it, and the police were called, and he left without incident.

They shared the grievance that the government wasn't paying attention to ordinary people, that it was time to respond to the negative byproducts of economic reform. They considered the government to be arrogant, haughty and unresponsive.

Access to an emergency room, if they reasonably believe they should go, they should go and be paid for appeals. Making sure that an individual that has a concern, a complaint, a grievance -- it needs to be handled expeditiously.

It's an unfair system, ... You can go to one particular block in Long Island, for example, where 11 houses got a tax reduction last year because they filed grievances. The remaining 4 homeowners who didn't file a grievance are still overpaying. In most municipalities, if you don't file it means you accept the assessment value of your home.

For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking them ... but at the same time, for the larger population, there is a kind of disappointment with law. There was a sense that lawyers were going to bring remedies and justice -- and (they don't), so everybody ends up having a grievance about lawyers.

In the world of administrative decisions, this is about as defective as you can get. It was our grievance hearing, and they characterized it completely as a personnel matter ... yet they didn't do anything to reprimand that woman.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

Jokes are grievances.

This is a good example of why officers need some due process. They need a grievance and arbitration procedure, so if they don't think the action taken by the department is warranted they have some recourse.

We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

The idea of having the principal hear it first is because, many times, the grievance is a matter of miscommunication and can be solved at that point.

The Eagles told Terrell, the arbitrator, and the media that Terrell would be paid for the balance of this year when he returned from his suspension, and now they are instead withholding his pay. We therefore filed this grievance both for his protection and that of players generally, who deserve to have their CBA . . . enforced as written.

The loser will have millions of people nursing that grievance for four years, and that will prove invaluable.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time

Never repeat old grievances.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!