Workers Quotes

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I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. — Ed Pastor
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. — Elijah Cummings
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to… — Pope Pius XII
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. — Karl Radek
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military… — Michael Oxley
If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that… — Jack Handey
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like… — Plato
There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level… — Bill Gates
Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United… — John Sweeney
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
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant… — Noam Chomsky
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;… — Samuel Gompers
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving… — Bernardino Ramazzini
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police… — Lynn Westmoreland
The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who… — Jimmy Carter

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