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“What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.”

Done Force Difficult Answers Demand Labor Command Organize Labor Union

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.”

“In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.”

Problem Wisdom Bigs Today Politics Force Difficult Leader Economy Labor Independent Congress Liberalism Bureaucracy Big Business Lobbyists

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”

Whole Difficult Quality Talent Pride Amount Genius Honor Labor Claims Aids Dependent

Author:William C. Bryant

“Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.”

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Author:Sharon Jaynes

“Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.”

Love Hard Wish Difficult Work Lovers Labor

Author:St. Jerome

“Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.”

Writing Trying Running Difficult Adventure Labor Capture Running Away Marvelous

Author:Eduardo Galeano