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• Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Labor

• I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

  Dolores Huerta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fair, Labor

• It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant – and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

  Graham Swift

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor, Compare

• I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they’re stronger. The same goes for unions.

  John E. Sweeney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor, Workers
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  We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Inspirational, Wisdom

  Tags in Labor, Learn, Freedom

• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Future, Politics

  Tags in Government, Predict, Labor, American, Freedom

• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Inspirational, Sacrifice

  Tags in Purity, Greater, Peace, Labor, Conscience, Difficult

• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Labor, Woman

• A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Labor

• The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

  David Wilmot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  David Obey

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Labor

• Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

  David Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Labor

• Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

• The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

  Brigham Young

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem, Labor

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  Ian Hunter

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Really, Labor

• Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Compassion, Equality, Solidarity, Freedom, Labor, Community, Creed, Credo

• Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don’t want to do the jobs.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Labor

• He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

• If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

  Paul Hoffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

• The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

  Paul Hoffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor