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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash 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
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Sebastian: I have to say something to you. You don't have to respond. You don't have to tell me anything. All you… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Our past is not sacred for being past, and there is much that is behind us that we are struggling to keep… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Marketing jingles from every angle lure patrons to turn our backs on our locally owned stores, restaurants, and farms. And nobody considers… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“He expected her to feel what she did not know how to feel. There were things that existed for him that she… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of… — Robert Hass 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
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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
My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour,… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we… — Alexis Herman Copy Share Image
Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out… — Utah Phillips 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
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
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
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
“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
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image