Quotes About Labor

To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.

There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.

You will eat from where you work with all your strength

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

Without work, we die daily.

Many people want money but do not love to work.

With or without money, the work must be done.

It is good to work for your living.

Work hard as if there was no God and trust God as if you have not worked.

Wealth can only be multiplied through work.

Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Tradesmen and traders

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

The harder you work, the richer your company's boss gets only.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father by the boss, he would rise; the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter.

That's why they say: work puts man in his grave but it's work that feeds and protects him until the grave. The important thing is that it protects him.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2

It was difficult for me to write, and not just because my hands were rough and my fingers so permanently bent around the handle of a pick and axe that unbending them was unbelievably difficult. I managed to wrap a thick rag around pen and pencil to give them the thickness of a pick or shovel handle.

CHECKLIST Statement of earnings from Social Security Income tax returns Checkbook records Old and current statements Gifts Winnings Loans Capital gains Illegal sources Contract labor not reported to the IRS (tips, babysitting, errands)