Workers Quotes · Page 21

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

— Elton John

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

— Mao Zedong

Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.

— Ricardo Flores Magon

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number…

— Donald Trump

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed…

— Stephen F. Lynch

Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers…

— Robert Reich

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will,…

— Austan Goolsbee

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S.,…

— James Surowiecki

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and…

— Dan Kildee

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our…

— Barack Obama

The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which…

— Mikhail Kalinin

Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers…

— Charles R. Morris

I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I…

— Stephen Graham

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly…

— Robert Grudin

In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a…

— Harry Belafonte

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare…

— Samuel Gompers

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as…

— Ezra Klein

I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace…

— Che Guevara

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that…

— Margaret Thatcher

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer…

— Alexander Fleming

I've always known of ROH and have worked with a lot of the workers there, but they've never reached out to me.…

— Gail Kim

It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

— Elaine Chao

We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

— Camille Paglia

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state…

— Pope Pius XI

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

— Jan C. Ting

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job…

— Chow Yun-Fat

Workforce development programs are crucial to train the workers of the future, fill in-demand jobs, and support local economies.

— Ben Ray Lujan

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

— Henry David Thoreau

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their…

— Rosa DeLauro

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.

— Gisela Stuart

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and…

— Leonid Brezhnev

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

— Fernando Haddad

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of…

— David Eddings

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

— Margaret Thatcher

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

— Vladimir Lenin