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LABOR QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Joe McNeill

Chris Garlock | Published on 5/7/2025

"I walked away with an attitude that, if our country is screwed up, don't give up. Unscrew it, but don't give up."                   

—Joe McNeill, one of the "Greensboro Four," the original protestors in the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in on February 1, 1960. Quoted in the National Museum of American History’s exhibit "The Nation We Build Together."