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“We differ from others only in what we do or don’t do, not in what we are.”

Book:Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

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“His mind filled with visions of a decadent kleptocracy in rapid decline, abetted by both political parties. America's masses, fed on processed poison bought with a food stamp swipe card. Low-skill workers, structurally unable to ever contribute again and too dumb to know their old jobs weren't coming back. The banks in Gotham leaching the last drops of wealth out of the country. Corporations unrestrained by any notion of national interest. The system of property law in shambles. The world drowning in debt.”

Jobs Debt Political Parties Blue Collar Banks Food Stamps Kleptocracy

Book:The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Source: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

“Never lose hope; each new day arrives bearing possibilities unknown.”

Life Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Motivation Hope Attitude Positive

Book:The Light in the Heart

Source: The Light in the Heart

“All you have to do, gentlemen, for you have the numbers, is to unite on one idea - that the workingmen shall rule the country. What man makes, belongs to him, and the workingman made this country.”

Blue Collar Unite Workingmen

Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in the pockets than all the property of capitalists. . .”

Power Workers Blue Collar

Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.”

Thinking Work Blue Collar White Collar

Author:John Ruskin

“The occupants of the other three looked like the people they had seen rioting in the streets of Paris that morning. They were citizens of the other France, the France one didn’t read about in guidebooks. They were the put-upon and the left-behind, the ones without glittering degrees from elite institutions of learning. Globalization and automation had eroded their value in the workforce. The service economy was their only option. Their counterparts in Britain and America had already had their say at the ballot box. France, reckoned Gabriel, would be next.”

Working Class Blue Collar Automation Laboring Class The Poor Get Poorer

Book:The New Girl

Source: The New Girl

“You know, I understand the way that some people view manual labor. With a kind of sneer, looking down your nose at it, like it’s less. But I’ve never found anything more satisfying than going out and making a change with my own two hands. Seeing a project through from start to finish, knowing that what I did…that it changed something. The shape of an object, the landscape. When you’re fighting fires, that your hands helped put up the blockade that preserved the wilderness. That you dug those trenches, ran those fire lines that saved houses, trees, animals. Lives. There’s no shame in it.”

Blue Collar Manual Labor

Book:Cowboy Christmas Redemption

Source: Cowboy Christmas Redemption

“an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it seems extrinsic and is perpetually uninvolving. One is relentlessly overwhelmed and understimulated all at the same time.”

Rough Working Class Proletariat Visceral Banality Blue Collar

Book:Checkout 19

Source: Checkout 19

“Like every other house-renting, paycheck-to-paycheck, heel dragging working American, it wouldn't matter if I stepped in it by accident or was pushed, or simply whiffed it as I walked by. With the powers in play, guilt or innocence had nothing to do with anything.”

Wealth Power Rich Trouble Guilt Innocence Blue Collar Stepped In It

Book:The Never-Open Desert Diner

Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner

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