Labor Quotes
1710 quotes by 1075 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.
— Naomi Judd
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.
— Samuel Smiles
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Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.
— Walter Reuther
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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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