Underpaid Quotes

• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Lonely, Teacher

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Doing Me, Wages

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow

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• An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Political, Income

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

  John Agar

  Agents, Publicity, Royalty

  "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

  Terrell Owens

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I think good teachers are underpaid.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Thinking, Good Teacher

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• This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

  Terrell Owens

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Bars, Poverty, Offers

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Dubious, Matter

  "What's Eating Bourdain?". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, digitaledition.courant.com.

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

  Michael Jordan

  Long, Ifs, Long Time

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• The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

  Molly Crabapple

  Country, Tired, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

  Jay Leno

  Complaining, Income, Want

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  Jeremy Lin

  Real, Bipolar, Perception

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• I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.

  Derek Ridgers

  Successful, Men, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

  Nick Offerman

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Chris Baio, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Life Lesson, Responsibility

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• We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• ... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Country, Fear, Struggle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Cases, New York Yankees

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