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“Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.”

Men Should Children Two Care Class Support Fashion Workers Average Take Care Decent Working Class Planned Parenthood Working Man Working Women

Author:Margaret Sanger

“As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.”

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Author:Fritz Sauckel

“In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.”

Ifs Jobs Company Blue Workers Injury 1960s Collars Uneducated Blue Collar Educated And Uneducated Blue Collar Workers

Author:Howard Schultz

“But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.”

Home Found Percent Program Workers Immigrants Illegal Guests Mexico Surveys Hispanic Illegal Immigrants Returning Home

Author:John Shadegg

“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

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Author:Al Sharpton

“No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.”

“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.”

Workers Bored Hopeless Meaningless Manure

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.”

May Jobs Findings Unions Workers Be Good

Author:Amity Shlaes

“We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.”

Want Strong Stuff Class Middle Workers Favors Middle Class Wages Costco

Author:James Sinegal

“Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.”

Company Messages Workers Stores Factories Insignificant Salary Brilliance Obscene Emanate

Author:James Sinegal

“You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.”

Ifs Loss Class Economy Workers Productivity Motivated Working Class Dynamics Disenfranchised Disenchanted

Author:James Sinegal

“If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.”

Ifs Should Humans Country Animal Lows Standards Concerned Workers Protection Treatment Exploitation Human Animal

Author:Peter Singer

“With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.”

Want Seems Hours Millions Increase Workers Clients Unfair Part Time Underemployment

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.”

People Want Embrace Workers Communicate

Author:Patti Smith

“I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.”

Believe Wells America I Believe Lines Sacrifice Security Fronts Office Fruit Workers Bottom Prosperity I Believe In Productivity Owners Volunteer National Security

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”

Ifs Years Care Next Strong President Share Health Fairs Safety Workers Health Care Budgets Indispensable President Bush Advocacy Fair Share

Author:Arlen Specter

“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.”

States Shows Jobs Law Growth Numbers Impossible One Thing Effects Negative Impact Workers Factors Reasonable Multitudes Wages Economist Job Growth

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Work is valued by the social value of the worker.”

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Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.”

People Seems Individual Poverty Difficulty Workers Obvious Debt Harm Unemployed

Author:James Surowiecki

“Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.”

People Littles America Term Hours Differences Wealth Produce Workers Productivity France Germany

Author:James Surowiecki

“Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.”

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Author:John J. Sweeney

“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”

Ifs Want Years I Can Feelings Enjoy Family Figures Deserve Workers Making Money Restaurants Holiday Owners Staff Thanksgiving Spend Time

Author:Michael Symon

“Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.”

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Author:Sara Blakely

“The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”

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Author:Valentina Tereshkova

“I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.”

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Author:Lech Walesa

“So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.”

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Author:Scott Walker

“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.”

Today Conscious Lifetime Workers Endure Accomplishment Strict Specialization

Author:Max Weber

“Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.”

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Author:Edward Weston

“Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.”

People Should Individual Church Effort Members Workers Lifts Ministers Impress Individual Effort

Book:Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

“When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”

World Light Fighting Vision This World Creating Miracle Workers Appetite Sweetness Miracle Worker

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.”

World Wells Let Me Workers Quarters Principal Dominant Insects Ants Predator Cemetery Biomass

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.”

Mother Social Workers Bathroom Social Worker

Author:Natalie Wood

“With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.”

Care Choices Loss Workers Health Care Employers Free Choice Vouchers

Author:Ron Wyden

“I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.”

Has Beens Names Animal Workers Release Pounds Overzealous

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.”

May Littles Pay Cutting Labor Workers Wheels Relative Efficiency Economist Inflation Loathe Yale Grease

Author:Janet Yellen

“In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.”

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Author:Clara Zetkin

“Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.”

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Author:Margaret Heffernan

“If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.”

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Author:Barbara Boxer

“I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.”

Giving Hard Shows Fans Workers Hard Worker

Author:Christina Aguilera

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