Activity Quote by Hannah Arendt

“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems…

— Hannah Arendt

“The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society…

— Hannah Arendt

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage…

— Learned Hand

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

— Anonymous

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be…

— Noam Chomsky

Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to…

— Dolores Huerta

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

— Mark Twain

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved but does…

— Robert Peate

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller