Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffawas an American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamstersunion from 1958 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975 at age 62...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 February 1913
CountryUnited States of America
needs bodyguard
I don't need a bodyguard.
running gun knives
Run from a knife and rush a gun.
misery violent guts
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
years eight president
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.
dirty angel mafia
Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.
faults may being-wrong
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
class government challenges
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.
needs lawyer needed
In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.
heart home men
Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
strong politics weak
I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.
fire challenges trying
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.
animal liberty inmates
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
country powerful men
He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.
men rome break
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.