Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A Laborer Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes,… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
“Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much… — Gustavo Arellano Copy Share Image
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by… — Henry David Thoreau 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
It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. Indeed,… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image