Workers Quotes - Page 37

• The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

  Andy Stern

  Roles, Movement, Social

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• America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

  Dylan Moran

  Hard Work, Holiday, Thinking

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• Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.

  David K. Shipler

  Struggle, Fall, America

  David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

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• Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Inspiration, Mean

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• If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Want, Gang, Subtle

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.75, Oxford University Press

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• The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Firsts, Steps, Achieve

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Doe, Demand

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

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• Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Air, Hands, People

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• What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, Differences, Skin Color

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• A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

  Ralph Peters

  Bars, Politics, Aids

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• Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Horse

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.481, e-artnow

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• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  Naoto Kan

  Japan, Average, Population

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• Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?

  Josef Pieper

  Art, Men, Ends

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• God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Want, Worship

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• To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada.

  Michelle Rempel

  Government, Innovation, Growth

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• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

  James P. Hoffa

  Apologizing, Standing, Fellows

  "Hoffa's Tea Party Rhetoric Too Violent?". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hard Work, Temptation, Honest

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

  David Eddings

  Three, Generations, Employment

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• American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Law

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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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• We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

  John F. Kerry

  Rights, Race, America

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• I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Teaching, College

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• On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Ordinary

  Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.30, Penguin

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• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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