Labor Quotes - Page 9

• My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.

  Frederick Douglass

  Abolition Of Slavery, Desire, Slavery

  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time".

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• I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

  Georges Bataille

  Mind, Sanity, Equilibrium

  Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Teaching, Pride

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• From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his tactics are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Moving, Mean

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• The purpose of labor is to learn;
  when you know it, the labor is over.

  Kabir

  Purpose, Knows

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Creative, Overcoming, New Horizons

  "Everyday Life in the Modern World".

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• Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.

  Jerry Falwell

  People, Asking, Unions

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Work, Reality

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• Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  William C. Bryant

  Law, Justice, Generosity

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.

  Linda Gordon

  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there is scarcely any remedy.

  St. Vincent

  Spiritual, Passion, Hands

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• Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Daughter, Son, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1027, Library of Alexandria

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• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

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• I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Mean, Humanity

  Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

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• In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Slave Labor, Civilization, Twenties

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Men, Machines

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• There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Unemployment, Wages

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• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

  Confucius

  Son, Chinese, Duty

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• What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

  Edward Carpenter

  Joy, Coaching, Elements

  Edward Carpenter (1905). “Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals”

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• Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

  Bhagat Singh

  Freedom, Real, Destiny

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• No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

  Peter J. McGuire

  War, Civilization, Honor

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• Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

  Alan Bersin

  People, United States, Mexico

  "Border 101". Article by Brady McCombs, tucson.com. October 24, 2010.

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