If there is not struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without demand.
It never did, and it never will. We believe that if these problems are not worked on in a meaningful and cooperative manner those problems will continue to get worse. We believe if the current managerial approaches and practices are maintained we will continue to driving away the good employees, ruining the Veterans Home reputation, exhaust and demoralize the existing staff, and thereby putting the residents at greater and greater risks. We need to get off the downward spiral before it is too late. Adequate means must be established for minimizing them and providing f or their resolution or their resolution the public employer and its employees are injurious to the public as well as the parties.