The Hammer Quotes

“Power is not a limited resource—using power builds power. It is something to be exercised, not conserved. It is better to fight and get your ass kicked than not to fight at all.”
― Hamilton Nolan, The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

“It has become conventional wisdom that America suffers from an unbridgeable gap between red and blue states, two separate political cultures that can agree on nothing and have become entrenched and opposing armies. … Organizing people not as voters, but as workers, is the start of the path toward breaking out of this artificial political divide, and bringing elected officials to heel on behalf of the working class.”
― Hamilton Nolan, The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor