American workers Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

— Franklin D Roosevelt

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

— Noam Chomsky

There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in…

— Alex Tabarrok

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

— Jalen Rose

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for…

— Will Rogers

In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to…

— Paul Krugman

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

— Bernard Crick

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.

— Mark Winne

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

— Abraham Lincoln

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy…

— Theodore Roosevelt