History Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

— Ani DiFranco

“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or more direct…

— Michael Perelman

“Take Steinem’s concern that if ‘sex work’ becomes the accepted terminology, states might require people to do it in order to access welfare services.…

— Laurie Penny

Labor is God's education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice…

— Wess Stafford

“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect of sexual…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard

I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant,…

— Taylor Hackford

“Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.”

— Robert Hughes

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

— Steven Pressfield

Labor: a powerful medicine.

— Saint John Chrysostom