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President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

Rosa DeLauro

Country, Equal Pay, One Day

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When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

Colin Firth

Country, Coffee, Believe

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In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Robert Browning

Time, Fall, Doe

Robert Browning, Augustine Birrell (1915). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

Samuel Gompers

Cutting, Long, Safety

Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”

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As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

John Sweeney

Strong, Children, Commitment

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And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

Robert Grosseteste

Wine, Issues, Kitchen

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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

Joseph Hume

Country, Law, Land

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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

Benjamin Franklin

Kindness, Gold, Masonic

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Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Richard Dawkins

Done, Pestilence, Bacteria

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The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

Ernst Junger

War, Anarchy, Files

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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

David Ricardo

Class, Judging, Profit

David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.31

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And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?

Prosper of Aquitaine

Views, Blood, Grace

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Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

A. Philip Randolph

Enemy, Looks, Minimum Wage

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All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

Mary Heaton Vorse

Law, Hours, Made

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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

Calvin Coolidge

Government, Ideas, America

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I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Christopher Love

Palaces, Prison, Finished

Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications

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One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

William Shakespeare

Death, Waiting, Dying

1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

Eliot Spitzer

Jobs, Impact, Law

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The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

Gore Vidal

War, Rights, Government

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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Henri Matisse

Art, Struggle, Arise

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If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Ludwig von Mises

Democracy, Receiving, Salary

Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.

Frances O'Grady

Real, Fall, People

"Cost of living crisis: We are £40 a week worse off under the Tories" by Stephen Hayward, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

Pete Seeger

Kissing, Parent, Population

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Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

Frederic Bastiat

Names, Free Education, Numbers

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Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

Rose Schneiderman

Mean Girls, Average, Victory

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