“So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.” PeopleI CanDoneFactsLawHouseImagineTaughtLowsPaidAgreeBoringLawyerFamiliarFrustratingRepetitiveDrudgeryHousekeepingUnintelligent Book:Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House Source: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.” NeedsIdeasLawLowsCapitalismFundamentalsWorkersCustomersAbsurdEmploymentMore MoneyWages Author:Nick Hanauer
“The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.” PeopleRealLawResultsPayLowsIllegalZeroMinimumLegislationEmployersMinimum WageVery Clever Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all. A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.” ShouldHumansDoeMadeCountryGovernmentLawNationsBlackWhitePoorCommonLibertyDestinyRichRightsCitizensProtectEqualLowsEqualityPursuitVarietyCitizenshipDelayEqual RightsPursuit Of HappinessRight To LifeHuman FamilyCompositesLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Author:Frederick Douglass
“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.” IfsKnowsNeedsShouldBelieveHelpingLawFightingLevelsPartyDemocracyCitizensHealthySucceedLowsTreatsIndependentElectionIndependenceCompetitionHardestReformPreservesVotersTake TimeParticipationCoalitionsLow Level Author:Michael Bloomberg