picket line

Noun

Meaning

a line of people acting as pickets

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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. Paul Robeson

Now, some of you might wonder how come I have ten children, right? One of the main reasons is because I want to have my own picket line. Dolores Huerta

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. Noam Chomsky

The police really work against the strikers. When a melon truck came to the picket line, the driver said that he didn't want to go through the picket line, and the police ordered him through the picket line anyway. This is a common practice with the police. Dolores Huerta

Around midday, after members of FOG marched from the Women’s Center down to the picket line in solidarity, protesters linked arms and organized themselves to block all four crosswalks at the base of campus. Source: Internet

"As you go by (the picket line), it's a lot of middle-finger, single-finger salutes, four-letter words," said Brian Boder, deputy director of maintenance for Public Works. Source: Internet

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