Brutal Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even…

— David Liss

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are…

— William Petty

Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation.…

— Ban Ki-moon

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

— George Mason

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must…

— Oscar Wilde

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

— Homer

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

— Lisa Joy

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly…

— Pope Leo XIII

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

— Terence McKenna

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value…

— Henry George