Living Wage Quotes

20 Living Wage quotes by 20 unique authors

... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have… — Danny Glover
It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be… — Barack Obama
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast… — Michael Pollan
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a… — William Vickrey
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has… — Marcia Wallace
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated… — Amy B. Lyman
By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem… — Lawrence Reed
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by… — Nancy Pelosi
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of… — Ernest Hemingway
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. — Richard Codey
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to… — Theodore Roosevelt
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our… — Jim Hightower
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than… — John Malkovich
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are… — P.J. O'Rourke
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. — Henry Rollins
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres… — Ian Mckellen

Who Wrote These Living Wage Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Living Wage Quotes as follows: