“Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.” WorldHas BeensAmericaForceProcessLevelsLaborCompetitionImmigrationIncomeInequalityMechanismElitesPrivilegedRestrictionShortageHigh LevelEliminatingVisaIncome InequalityQuotaPricingLabor Force Author:Alan Greenspan
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.” WorldHas BeensStillsDifferentWarReasonTogetherAmericaSufferingGrowsPresidentAnimalCenturyColorAreasLaborFunctionSlaveImmigrationInequalityWar Of The WorldsPotFarmsCrucialHostWorld War IiWorld War IPerilNationalityMeltingEmancipationWild AnimalMelting PotSlave Labor Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead.” Has BeensAmericaTurnsCultureJusticeDiversityLaborSocial JusticeRadioJewLiedTurn-onPersecutedInsultedMistreated Author:Aime Cesaire
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state” MenHas BeensCountryStatesEarthLawGivenNaturalPoorCommonBusinessPovertyClearLandLaborPropertyFinanceFarmersFarmingUnemployedFarming And Farmers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.” Has BeensDreamEarthBornLaborAgingCurseMisfortunes Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.” MenNeedsChildrenHas BeensLawPurposeSufferingNamesJusticePovertyKnowingSacrificeLandCrimeLaborOur ChildrenMiseryGreedInjusticeHungerObviousDesperationMen WomenBrutalityStoopsCallous Author:Cesar Chavez
“A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.” Has BeensScienceTechnologyDevelopmentComfortLaborProductionsDamageDedicatedDedicationConvenienceExhausting Author:B. F. Skinner
“Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.” MenHas BeensGovernmentPoliticsLibertyEconomicTenLaborSavingDevicesMarvelousMachinery Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.” IfsKnowsWorldChildrenHas BeensMadeUseAgePastScienceKnowledgeLaborFormerInfancy Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.” MenLifeNeedsWellsLooksHas BeensArtMadeRememberSciencePurposeForceHalfKnownWonderfulCenturyPeriodsComfortBlessingElementsLaborCirclesArt And ScienceExtendingYokeSubservientHalf A Century Book:Crusade Against Ignorance Source: Crusade Against Ignorance
“It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.” GivingFirstsLittlesHas BeensShowsSuccessScienceStepsStudyMonthsLaborDifficultyFaultsIntuitionInventionAriseAnxiousFirst StepsBugsSuccess Or Failure Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.” PeopleHumansChildrenHas BeensCountryStatesJobsForceGoalUnitedPayClassUnited StatesGrowingPolicyIndustryTaxesLowsLaborThirdsSafetyTradeUnionsEnvironmentalConservativeIncomeForeign PolicyRegulationRestrictionEliminationFree TradePublic EducationLabor UnionLow IncomePrivatizationChild LaborExportingHuman ServiceUnderemployed Author:Michael Parenti
“Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.” Has BeensWarHumanityCenturyIndustryLaborFavorsInventionArtisansIdlers Author:Remy de Gourmont
“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.” PeopleMenGivingShouldHas BeensBookSoulSchoolEarthHateAsksChurchAnimalNumbersKnownSunCrazyStupidLaborRichesArguingFleshIncomeInsultPetHatsTyrantsDespiseIndulgenceLeaves Of GrassHaving PatienceAlmsEarth And Sun Author:Walt Whitman
“If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.” IfsMenWorldWantHas BeensMoralChristianityPovertyStudyDutyLaborDignityGoodsDiminishElevationConsecrationMoral Duty Book:Brownson's Quarterly Review Source: Brownson's Quarterly Review
“Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensTodayNationsMajorsLaborFortuneJewVicesTragicJudaismGood FortuneLiving OnVultureJewish History Author:Samuel Roth
“Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.” YearsWellsHas BeensImportantHelpingNaturalBirthLaborFunctionWell BeingRelatedPregnancyDeliveryChildbirthHormonesLater In LifeNatural Childbirth Author:Janet Schwegel
“The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.” Has BeensAmericaInterestMovementLaborUnionsDevotionPresidentialConsistentlyOrganizePublic InterestLabor UnionLabor MovementOrganized LaborUnionismUnion SolidarityLabour Movement Author:John F. Kennedy