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> [In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/in-the-u-s-ironically-people-work-longer-hours-in-the-u-s-than-they/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/eric-drooker-12664_country_in-the-u-s-ironically-people-work-longer_62453.jpg)

> [Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/working-people-are-working-even-longer-hours-even-though-we-won-the/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/eric-drooker-12664_chicago_working-people-are-working-even-longer-h_965763.jpg)

## More by Eric Drooker

> [Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/everyone-wants-to-be-part-of-the-99-even-the-cops-are-like-no-no-man/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/i-think-for-an-artist-there-are-so-many-things-to-make-pictures-of/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/in-the-u-s-ironically-people-work-longer-hours-in-the-u-s-than-they/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/americans-didn-t-really-have-any-experience-with-something-as-basic/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/the-trick-is-not-to-look-back-but-keep-on-expressing-where-i-m-at-now/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/street-posters-allowed-you-to-have-the-last-word-if-you-put-them-up/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/art-makes-people-do-a-double-take-and-then-if-they-re-looking-at-the/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/there-s-so-much-tragedy-in-people-that-we-see-every-day-that-we-don-t/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/the-unusual-thing-about-doing-street-poster-art-or-something-with-a/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/everything-you-do-is-political-even-if-it-s-abstract-you-re-making-a/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/by-the-time-i-was-in-my-early-twenties-and-was-living-there-on-the/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/street-art-is-about-as-religious-as-i-get-that-s-my-faith-that-even/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/illustrators-are-usually-illustrating-something-big-or-commercial-if/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/the-problem-with-prostitution-in-my-experience-is-that-it-s-often/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

> [There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-drooker/there-s-the-fact-that-animation-is-extremely-time-consuming-tedious/)

[Eric Drooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-drooker/)

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