Laborers Quotes

102 quotes by 88 authors

The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization… — John Mott
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of… — Ulysses S. Grant
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of… — Henry George
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep… — J C Ryle
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government. — Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class… — Friedrich Engels
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. — Shakira
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from… — William Graham Sumner
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which… — Ned Sublette
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer… — Lucy Larcom
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. — Rebecca Harding Davis
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all,… — David Ben-Gurion
I class myself as a manual laborer. — Theodore White
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top… — Steven Rattner

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