Labor Quotes

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One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and tirelessly labor in… — Unknown Author
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to… — Roger Casement
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler… — Aime Cesaire
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the… — Albert Einstein
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and… — A. Philip Randolph
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to… — George Meany
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. — Thomas Jefferson
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real. — Naomi Judd
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done… — Abraham Lincoln
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. — Thomas Jefferson
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives… — Kenji Miyazawa
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a… — Bernard de Mandeville
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie. — Walter Reuther
I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like… — Robert Burns

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