Quotes About Labor

My parents taught me the value of hard work, that people don't mind working hard as long as they get to share in the prosperity they create.

Growing up in Ridgeville, South Carolina, pretty much all I saw was people working hard.

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

We've never minded working hard.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

My job is to represent working people.

I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.

Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people.

We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.

We must defend the rights of working people to bargain collectively for fair wages and safe working conditions.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

We need to be a party saying, 'We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.'

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'