Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepresented the labor and civil rights movements as two separate,… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short,… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike,… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit.… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone… — William James Copy Share Image
The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him… Shaking… — Cliff Asness Copy Share Image
“Employment: I’ll trade my time and labor for your money. So time is not money, because money is time plus labor. I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and… — Alexis Herman Copy Share Image
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
We want people to take care of themselves. We want people to provide for themselves. We want people to enjoy the fruits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No,… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image