Workers Quotes

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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush — John F. Kerry
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below… — Florence Kelley
As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not… — John Doolittle
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for… — Dennis Hastert
Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his… — Samuel Gompers
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations… — Eugene V. Debs
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act… — Eugene V. Debs
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are… — Eugene V. Debs
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital… — Karl Marx
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this… — Karl Marx
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work… — Karl Marx
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does… — Karl Marx
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people. — Karl Marx
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. — Homer
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky

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