Collective bargaining Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others,…

— John Ruskin

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

“As long as the hope was fulfilled there was little questioning of nonviolence. But when the hopes were blasted, when people came to see…

— Martin Luther King Jr

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of…

— Charlie Chaplin

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

— Alfred Marshall

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

— Markus Zusak

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

— Alfred Marshall

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

— Albert Camus

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the…

— Henry George