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“Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.”

People Giving Should Littles Jobs Air Mines Standards Labor Should Have Paid Safety Environmental Protection Corporations Regulation Crushed Choke Filthy Environmental Protection

Author:Richard Trumka

“Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.”

Men Want Humans Would Be Heaven Wise Air Labor Ministers Toil Idleness Folds Cradle Woven Silk Shepherds Indebted Wool Ordination Pampered

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”

Ifs World Firsts Has Beens Said Light Faces Heaven Work Race Air Cost Labor Good Things Bread Enjoyed Labour Sweat Almighty

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.”

World Real Earth Water Fire Air Land Depends Models Labor Enormous Chosen Complexity Divides Real World Classification Taxonomy Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.”

Men Body Earth Fall Air He Man Higher Labor Attraction Tendencies Rising Aviation Regions Gravity Predictions Floats

Book:The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings

Source: The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings

“Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.”

Air Labor Vote Conservative Castles Castles In The Air

Author:David Frost

“He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.”

Air Fronts Labor Importance Owners Hiding Capitalist Stride Laborers Hesitant

Author:Karl Marx