Underpaid Quotes

• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Lonely, Teacher

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Doing Me, Wages

  Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow

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• Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

  John Agar

  Agents, Publicity, Royalty

  "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

  Terrell Owens

  Sports, Football, Player

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• An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Political, Income

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think good teachers are underpaid.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Thinking, Good Teacher

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• This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

  Terrell Owens

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Bars, Poverty, Offers

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Dubious, Matter

  "What's Eating Bourdain?". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, digitaledition.courant.com.

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

  Michael Jordan

  Long, Ifs, Long Time

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• The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

  Molly Crabapple

  Country, Tired, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

  Jay Leno

  Complaining, Income, Want

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  Jeremy Lin

  Real, Bipolar, Perception

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• And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Criticism

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• My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

  Nick Offerman

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Chris Baio, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Blood, Together

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• The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

  John Osborne

  Educator

  John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

  Dean Smith

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

  Dale Carnegie

  Tired, Thinking, Want

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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• I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.

  Derek Ridgers

  Successful, Men, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

  Trey Gowdy

  Running, Country, Jobs

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