Labor Quotes - Page 26

• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Black And White, Slave Labor

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• As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

  Al Capp

  Mother, Welfare, Form

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• Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

  Will Rogers

  Dream, Money, Trying

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• I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.

  Milton Friedman

  Essence, People, Low Income

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Zero, Government, Slave Labor

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Mother, Breakup

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

  Herta Muller

  Writing, Hands, Silent

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• The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Novelty, Jest

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.5

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• Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Wish, Doe

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• And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Differences, Political

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hard Work, Play, People

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• I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

  Grace Helbig

  School, Giving, Signatures

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• I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Drawing, Lines, Want

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• It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

  George W. Romney

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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• There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. Well work for it, sisters and brothers. Well stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

  Richard Trumka

  Brother, America, Stronger

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• Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Vanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Focus, Cost, Guests

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

  James P. Hoffa

  Labor Day, Hardworking, Day Of Rest

  "Weary U.S. Workers Are Still Experiencing Hard Times" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2014.

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• The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

  James Altucher

  Lying, Ideas, People

  Twitter post from Feb 6, 2018

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• . . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

  Susan Piver

  Letting Go, Mother, Giving

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• Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

  Lawrence Wright

  Real, Faithful, Church

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