Quotes About Labor

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.

Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.