“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.” Has BeensIdeasCountryAmericaCultureLaborImmigrants Author:Marc Veasey
“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.” PeopleMenMayDoeCountryWholeMightCulturePoliticsNamesSpeakPlansHighestLaborClaimsWorthyOur CountryAll TimeAdministrationOur TimeOther CountriesHonoredDiplomacyEloquenceStatesmenJurisprudenceEdification Book:Lectures on Education Source: Lectures on Education
“Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.” WorldShouldMatterCultureMessagesLaborAround The WorldCaliforniaGermanyDestroyingAgricultureMcdonalds Author:Alice Waters
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.” MenActionLyingNightCultureGrowthMorningWiseProgressHe ManFoolVictoryConflictLaborEveningPolishAcquisitionExertionFriction Author:Frederick Douglass
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.” LittlesCultureTermEconomyChangedDevelopmentLaborSouthFolksTraditionalClingingIndustrializationModernizationMechanizationUrbanizationAntebellum Author:C. Vann Woodward