Workers Quotes - Page 21

• Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

  John Kasich

  Looks

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Shadow, Want

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Security Systems, Benefits

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Class, United States, Today

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Matter, Young

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it. They are calling for a redistribution of wealth and power - not within the old system, but in a new one in which democracy becomes more than a slogan or a legitimation for authoritarianism and state violence.

  Henry Giroux

  Artist, Order, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations and vast economic inequalities that have generated what has become a country in which it is almost impossible to recognize the ideals of a real democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Religious, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.

  Kshama Sawant

  Fighting, Joining, Movement

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

  Jill Stein

  Rolling, Austerity, Globalization

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I am going to put the miners, the steel workers, and so many of our other workers that are being clobbered by the stupidity of our government's leadership - I am going to put them back to work. That includes the steel workers.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Stupidity, Steel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

  Akio Morita

  Fate, Bonus, Share

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 187), 1986.

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• To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

  Paul Krugman

  Sacrifice, Past, Skills

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

  Ted Nelson

  Numbers, Irrelevance, World

  "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.

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• The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

  James P. Cannon

  Home, America, World

  "The Struggle for a Proletarian Party". Book by James P. Cannon, 1943.

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• Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Toil, Able, Spirit

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182

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• Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Inspiration, Progress, Genius

  "Futurism". Book edited by Didier Ottinger, p. 78, 2008.

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• To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Jobs, Different, Peculiar

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• The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

  Patrick Dixon

  Ideas, Leader, Innovation

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Wings, Libertarian, Firsts

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.54, AK Press

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• When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

  Robert Ley

  Pigs, Ordinary, Would Be

  "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy". Book by Adam Tooze, p. 529, June 29, 2006.

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• Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

  Jesse Ventura

  Girl, Running, Law

  Interview in "Playboy", November 1999.

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• The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Way, Grind, Factories

  "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.

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