John Sweeney (labor Leader)
John Joseph Sweeney (born May 5, 1934) was the president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009.
Read more about John Sweeney (labor Leader): Early Years, Union Career, 1995 Campaign For Presidency of The AFL-CIO, First Decade in Office, 2005 Campaign For Presidency of The AFL-CIO, Personal Life
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“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.””
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)