Workers Quotes - Page 35

• Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Economy Today, Labor Force

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Giving, Support

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Believe, High Heels

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• A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Country, Horse, Village

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• You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

  Paul Robeson

  Courage, Fighting, Rights

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

  Bill Vaughan

  Movie, Stars, Thinking

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• The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

  Arthur Scargill

  Struggle, Winning, Opportunity

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• There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you shouldn't do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Success, Husband, Heart

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• More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

  Anthony Weiner

  Law, Squash, Community

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• Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Cocky, Blow

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work: March 12, 1957”

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• The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.

  Stephen Covey

  Voice, Challenges, Inspire

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• Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Weekend, Important

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• The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Work, Expression, Organization

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.86, Penguin

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Daughter

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• All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

  Ray Lewis

  Tyrants, Realizing, Cop

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• Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Learning, Successful, Lifetime

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• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Alice Rivlin

  California, Low Income, Trends

  "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Recovery, Independence

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

  Leland Ryken

  People, Stewards, Serving God

  Leland Ryken (1995). “Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure”, p.105, Baker Academic

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• With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Small Numbers, Succeed

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

  Margaret Beckett

  Skills, Reason, Social Worker

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• I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Intellectual, Together

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.40, Open Road Media

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