Workers Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

  Lettie Cowman

  Work, Important, Lord

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• The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation
  of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and
  black.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Yellow, Black

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2013). “Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Work Out, Generations

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2185, Manonmani Publishers

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• The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

  Harry Browne

  Errors, Government, People

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• Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Hard Work, Great Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1396, Barbour Publishing

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• As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

  Steve Israel

  Generations, Benefits, Today

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• So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Educational, Successful

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• Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Wages, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Unity, Important, International

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 35, (pp. 246-247),

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• When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

  John Stossel

  Effort, Return, Equal

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• My father was a manual worker.

  Diane Abbott

  Father, Manuals

  "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

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• [Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Kings, Children

  "Pelosi Remarks at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Rally". pelosi.house.gov. August 26, 2013.

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• Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

  Joe Biden

  Teenager, Mean, People

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• Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Struggle, Wages

  Karl Marx (1964). “Early writings”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Numbers, Evil

  "Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics".

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• Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Impact, Order, Gauges

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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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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• 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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• A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

  Ned Sublette

  Years, Lasts, Culture

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• I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

  Daryl Hall

  Hardest, Knows, Felt

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• Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Confused, Thinking

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• I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

  Andy Stern

  Issues, United States, Movement

  "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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