Workers Quotes - Page 30

• Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  Matthew Lesko

  Appreciation, Rap, Government

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Unions

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Thoughtful, America

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• Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

  John L. Lewis

  Usa, Conflict, Institutions

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Tired, Rights, Agony

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

  Jet Li

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Jobs, Perspective

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

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• The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Leadership, Determination, Destiny

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

  Loretta Lynn

  Real, Smart, Ghouls

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• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  Samora Machel

  Dog, Men, Vaccines

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Reality, Germany

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

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• Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

  Sienna Miller

  Film, Hardest

  "I always end up putting my big fat foot in it" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2007.

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• When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Keys, Trying, Want

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Country, People, Secret

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• Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

  Michael Moore

  80s And 90s, Giants, Michigan

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• My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Dad, Littles

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• I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

  Kate Moss

  Business, Apology, People

  "Kate Moss: Sorry I let people down". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2005.

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• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Reading, Responsibility

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• I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

  Frances O'Grady

  Joining, Unions, Individual

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• Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Home, Blue

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• The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Important, Making Money, Easier

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• 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, War, Race

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• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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