We talk about 'the big one' out in San Francisco.... Well the big one in America is race -- that's the San Andreas fault of this country. And to see it so vividly displayed between poverty and middle class and white and black, right out there with those people begging for water, a basic human need, and to see that in way that looks like it's racial, really rips the scab off of this country. This is the thing we don't want to face, and now we're going to have to face it.
Quotes about scab (13 Quotes)
For the Canucks to try scab hockey in British Columbia is a long stretch and would do more harm to this game than any lockout ever did. They'll never get the support of the public to do this.
Gasoline prices are kind of like a festering scab for people. People do odd things regardless of how stupid it is.
This is, unfortunately, one of the years that was conducive to a scab outbreak.
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
The itch of disputing will prove the scab of the churches. See Izaak Walton on Sir Henry Wotton.
Hell, I would be terrified if Hollywood showed up in my community and was going to pick a scab, ... The other thing was 'How are the men going to be portrayed' You have to understand what the men struggled for. At the end of the day, it was survival for both sexes. That doesn't justify the behavior, but in this community, this mine was the one thing they considered theirs and their fathers' and brothers'. The women were taking jobs in a community where there were no jobs to be taken.
We as union members should go into a zero tolerance mode, and do everything possible to get that UPS scab truck off the road.
This was very much a low blow. Scab labor in the labor community is not something people take very lightly.
Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
The grief sometimes gets so heavy that it's physically hard to breathe. The wound never heals. Little things -- like hearing a certain song on the radio -- just rip the scab right off.
If the economy slows, everyone's going to take a hit. It's just some are going to have their legs cut off, and some will walk away with a scab.