Sweatshops Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country… — Barbara Kingsolver
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few. — Jeffrey Sachs
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in… — James Connolly
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining… — Kevin Bales
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops! — Marc Anthony
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations… — Noam Chomsky
Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who… — John Sweeney
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union… — Naomi Klein
The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie… — Charles Derber
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians… — Garrison Keillor
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world. — Norman Finkelstein
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived… — Stephen Jay Gould
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is… — David James Duncan
Maybe careers arenâ€™t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those… — Susan Juby

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