Workers Quotes - Page 8

• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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• My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

  William Julius Wilson

  Cities, Research, Want

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• Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

  William Julius Wilson

  Cities, White, Black

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• All workers want is a fair shake.

  James P. Hoffa

  Want, Shakes, Fairs

  "Corporate America: 'Have You No Sense of Decency?'" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Military, Common Humanity, Decision

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Men, Command And Control

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

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• When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

  Alain de Botton

  Long, People, Forever

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Athlete, People, Ingredients

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

  Common

  Teacher, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

  Shakti Gawain

  Teacher, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Despotism, Shots

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• The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Energy, Spirit

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people”

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  David Niu

  Team, Leader, Boss

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• In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

  Cullen Hightower

  Work, Law, Class

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• The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

  Upton Sinclair

  Mean, Giving, Way

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Pain, Work, Skills

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Pain, Work, Knowing

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.

  Neal Cassady

  Airplane, Light, Car

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• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Queens, Power, Honey

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• I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

  Tama Janowitz

  Giving, Body, Clients

  Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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