Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
This country was created from stolen land and stolen labor. And from a moral perspective, but also from a practical one, everybody… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil… — Bill Mollison 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
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation,… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery.… — Marc Lamont Hill 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
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
When we created the Center for American Progress in 2002, the left really only had single-issue groups, like labor unions, and think… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
