Labor Quotes · Page 39

Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the…

— Erma Bombeck

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time…

— Lael Brainard

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

— Lane Kirkland

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the…

— John Bigelow

... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races…

— Carson McCullers

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

— Lamar S. Smith

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the…

— Jerry Ash

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all…

— Chris Ware

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

— Helen Keller

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which…

— Lucy Larcom

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

— Cesar Chavez

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me…

— Anonymous

In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into…

— Sunitha Krishnan

Labor is God's education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a…

— Eric Drooker

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

— H. W. Brands

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which…

— Jimmy Hoffa

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

— Will Cuppy

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and…

— Thomas Carlyle

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the Genovese Crime Family, instilled fear in victims and perpetrated kickback schemes to tighten…

— Audrey Strauss

We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health,…

— Frederic Farrar

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short,…

— Jen Lilley

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the…

— Thomas Paine