Quotes to make a grown man happy.
This note was the promise that all men, yes, PH drivers as well as taxi drivers, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, Britain has given PH drivers a bad cheque; a cheque which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
We can never be satisfied as long as licensed drivers are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for taxis only".
There will be neither rest nor tranquility in Britain until PH drivers are granted their equal rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of equality emerges.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the PH driver community must not lead us to distrust of all taxi drivers, for many of our taxi colleagues, as evidenced by their presence on Taxi Driver Online, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
I have a dream that one day on the hills of Edinburgh, sons of former PH drivers and sons of former taxi drivers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, even the council of Brighton and Hove, a council sweltering with the heat of inequality, sweltering with the heat of discrimination, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and equality.
I have a dream that our kind will one day work in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their plate but by the content of their character.
And when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every council and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all licensed drivers, PH owners and journeymen, mini-cab owners and drivers, taxi journeymen and women - will be able to join hands and to sing in the words of the old spiritual, "equal at last, equal at last; thank God Almighty, we are equal at last."