Best Working People Sayings
91 Working People quotes by 70 unique authors
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To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say:…
— William Hague
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We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the…
— James P. Hoffa
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I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for…
— Caroline Kennedy
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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
— Philip Levine
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work.…
— Frances O'Grady
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going…
— Barack Obama
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents…
— Natalie Portman
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We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
— Paul Prudhomme
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I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves,…
— David O. Russell
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You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
— James Sinegal
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides…
— Lech Walesa
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from…
— Lech Walesa
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
— Cornel West
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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind…
— Cornel West
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We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
— Cornel West
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're…
— Cornel West
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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
— Neil Young
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns…
— Alber Elbaz
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The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business…
— Noam Chomsky
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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel…
— Cornel West
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,…
— Helen Keller
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be…
— Hank Johnson
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In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.
— Noam Chomsky
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I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their…
— Mikhail Sholokhov
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