Workers Quotes

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The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they… — Paul Clark
Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you." On the last… — Muhammad
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by… — James Cross Giblin
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts… — Hesiod
Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people. — Martin Haberman
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would… — Eric Reguly
Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower… — Rinku Sen
The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker,… — Vikas Swarup
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers. — John Sweeney
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting… — Scott McClellan
We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot… — David E. Bonior
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line… — Andrew Cuomo
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of… — Jerry Brown
A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything… — Jay Leno
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every… — George Bernard Shaw
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary… — Pope Pius XI
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to… — Robert Reich

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