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“All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf.”

“Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.”

Men Wells Doe Hands Industry Workers Ruins Procrastination Morrow Barns Sluggish

Book:Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles

Source: Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles

“Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.”

People Firsts Teaching Goes On Workers

Author:Martin Haberman

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.”

“Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s”

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Book:The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition

“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”

Ifs Might Drink Workers Alcohol Conclusion Advertising Executives Whiskey Drunkards

Book:Q & A: A Novel

Source: Q & A: A Novel

“I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.”

Thinking Facts Powerful Resources Workers Greed Corporate Owners Most Powerful Greedy Economic Inequality

Author:John Sweeney

“It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.”

“We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally.”

“We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.”

Needs Reality Deals Trade Workers Chinese Goods

Author:David E. Bonior

“I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.”

States Reality Lines Pay Economic Benefits Unions Workers Pension

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.”

States Reality Deals Cutting Sacrifice Members Crisis Unions Workers Budgets California Contribution Employee Taxpayers Making Sacrifices

Author:Jerry Brown

“A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.”

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.”

“In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.”

Source: The Conquest of Fear

“The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.”

Should Should Have Workers Eggs Retirement Nests

Author:Gresham Barrett

“Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.”

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Author:John Shadegg

“We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.”

Able Conditions Safe Workers Retirement Healthcare Reconstruction Working Conditions

Author:Leonard Boswell

“The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.”

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Author:Mark Dayton

“Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.”

Known Plans Members Workers Congress Employment Features Retirement

Author:Virgil Goode

“We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.”

Benefits Increase Workers Retirement Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Ken Buck

“In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.”

Ifs Body Sides Party Danger New York Pressure Workers Pounds Decline Body Image Cookies Flocks Your Side Anorexia Co Worker Physique

Author:Sloane Crosley

“The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.”

“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.”

“I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.”

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Author:Janet Napolitano

“The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.”

Mean Facts Prayer Simple Lord Workers Humble Our Prayers Console Cardinals Insufficient Vineyards

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.”

Next Company Wonderful Misery Workers Customers Chinese Apples Investors Engines Pixar

Author:Eric Alterman

“I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'”

Felt Wife My Friends Female Workers Boxes My Wife Ridiculous Girlfriend My Girlfriend Co Worker

Author:Jack White

“An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid”

Should Country Pay Cutting Willing Paid Workers Reconstruction American Workers

Author:Gary Miller

“Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.”

People Should Study Labor Asking Unions Workers More Money Labor Union

Author:Jerry Falwell

“But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?”

“Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.”

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.”

“Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.”

People Looks Jobs America Three Blame Workers Opening Unemployed

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.”

Way Needs Country Jobs Millions Republican Trade Democrat Workers Agreement Other Countries Unfair American Workers Trade Agreements Fair Trade

Author:Russ Feingold

“The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.”

Ends Turns Three Kindness Tree Despair Workers Unexpected New Beginnings Three Things Scottish Cherries Blooming Cherry Trees

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.”

People Needs Running Sex Drug Workers Prisoner Disability Running Away Users

Author:Michel Sidibe

“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

“The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”

Wells Heart Sun Workers Iniquity

Author:Thomas Nashe

“Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929

“Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.”

“To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.”

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Author:Joe Baca

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