“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.” PeopleGivingShouldLittlesJobsAirMinesStandardsLaborShould HavePaidSafetyEnvironmentalProtectionCorporationsRegulationCrushedChokeFilthyEnvironmental Protection Author:Richard Trumka
“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.” MenShouldHumansMayDoeWholeMightWishBusinessRaceProductsIndustryLaborShould HaveHuman RaceFancyToil Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.” IfsShouldBelieveDoneValuesI BelieveMy OwnLaborShould HaveLifetimeDecades Author:William Henry Jackson
“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.” IfsWantShouldFacesIssuesEffectsLaborShould HaveAbsolutesUnionsWorkersBordersGuestsDepressingWagesCheap Labor Author:Mark Helprin
“Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.” WayShouldMeanUseTermReligiousLibertyRightsTypeGayLaborShould HaveFruitMinoritiesWomens RightsGay RightsReligious Rights Author:Ron Paul
“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.” MenShouldCareFieldsLaborShould HavePaidValuableAccessPro Feminist Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.” PeopleShouldArtCoursesBeautyFireOrdinaryLaborShould HaveEssenceOrdinary PeopleArt Of LivingEssence Of Beauty Author:Kenji Miyazawa