Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy,… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I've conducted investigations and written in… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“When I was a little boy my daddy told me to sell pots and pans. He said it's good stuff. Makes you… — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In Texas and across agriculture-producing states, migrant children are being exploited and billion-dollar corporations are reaping the profits. Beyond the egregious violation… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“Our difficulty is no longer how to contain people densely in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of disease, bad sanitation and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Development is the strategy of evasion. When you can’t give people land reform, give them hybrid cows. When you can’t send children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Thus, in the early 1900s, a new generation of crusading journalists known as “muckrakers” campaigned to expose the social ills and abuses… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I started calling anti-child labor organizations, asking how I could help. They told me a kid couldn't make any difference, so I… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
Most Americans wouldn't buy a roast chicken or a cut of beef if they knew child labor had helped produce it -… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed… — Lewis Hine Copy Share Image
Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like,… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
![“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the subjection of women, child labor, segregation. The…” quote by Joe Roman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bd3/joe-roman-40542_american_it-may-be-underfunded-and-at-times-misma_1306385.jpg)
