The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with… — Mencius Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The reason why I got involved in labor was, quite honestly, my uncle was a business agent for the laborers union and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss,” Franklin said. I like to… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
At every step of the I-95 project, local, state and federal officials coordinated closely with each other, and the collaborative approach extended… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
