Workers Quotes - Page 10

• I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Opportunity, Research, Lines

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Aunt

  Source: capro.info

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• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, Self Confidence

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

  Alan Greenspan

  Teaching, Economic Value, America

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• The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Country, Broken, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Pathways, United States, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Together, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Uprising, Tragedy, Kind

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.

  Dean Spade

  Hard Work, Organization, White

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Self, Decision, Voting

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Cutting, Successful, Cost

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Keys, Decision, Arriving

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Giving, Income, Matter

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Political, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.

  Joel Bakan

  Business, Government, Organization

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

  Arthur Dong

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Believe, Imagination, Telephones

  Source: collider.com

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• Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Reflection

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• Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Entrepreneur, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

  Edie Falco

  People, Costumes, Co Worker

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview by June Thomas, April 6, 2012.

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• 80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Smart, People

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• Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
  All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
  Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
  Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

  Joe Hill

  Struggle, Taken, Ambition

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