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“Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.”

Should Calling Should Have Workers Holiday Sunday Happy Life

“Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.”

War States Political Race Class Effects Drug Prison Workers Population Currents Plenty Prohibition War On Drugs Superfluous Unwanted Correlation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.”

Two War Government Political Millions Rights Drug Bills Workers Terrorism Wages Telephones Surveillance Prohibition Bill Of Rights

Author:Gore Vidal

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

Literature Workers Passionate Journalism Journalist Manuals Laborers Frigidity

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.”

Mean Important Left Force Groups Journey Poet Workers British Shore Volunteer Accustomed Spain Writers And Poets

Author:William Alexander

“My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.”

Want Long Stills Care Running Fairs Patience Workers Impression Agreement Sensible Public Service Fuse

Author:Frances O'Grady

“The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.”

War Loses Gains Workers Dear Dear God

Author:Clara Zetkin

“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.”

Way Young Used Justice Rights Movement Murder Workers Equality Civil Rights African American Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Intimidation Equality And Justice Civil Right Movement

Author:Charles Rangel

“The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.”

Ifs World Problem Hands Lines Wealth Attitude Destiny Struggle Overcoming Difficulty Workers Active Problem Solving Self Reliance Reliance Peasants Marxist

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'”

Ifs Firsts Social Water Air Workers Criticize Als Broads Shut Up Pardon Social Worker Submerged Prudes

Author:Pamela Moore

“Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.”

Industry Skills Findings Difficulty Workers

Author:Jerry Rubin

“It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.”

Needs Loses Company Economy Century Competition Workers Graduates 21st Century Employers

Author:Christopher Bond

“Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.”

People Class Democratic Workers Dictatorship Dictator Working Class Peasants Alliances

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.”

World Giving Jobs Fighting Courses Left Behinds Break Plans Economic Planets Survival Workers Reports Our World Zero Carbon Left Behind Our Planet

Author:Sharan Burrow

“If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.”

Ifs Mind Self Today Leadership Independent Workers Employed

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest”

Ifs Made Law Hours Conditions Workers Protest Wages Betterment

Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.”

Found Pleasure Havens Painting Workers Obligation Working It

Author:Fernando Botero

“Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.”

Humans Wealth Technology Office Machines Workers Inequality Racing Factories Distribution Accentuate Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Freeman Dyson

“A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.”

Economic Tests Ultimate Workers Economic Systems

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.”

Church Lines Fronts Institutions Workers Camps Trenches Sleepers Dormitory

Author:Billy Sunday

“I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.”

Giving Ideas Growth Accounts Workers

Author:Virginia Foxx

“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”

Whole Style Citizens Workers Revolutionary Revival Rifles Proletariat Militia Cannons Ammunition

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

Ifs Should Force Arms Workers Revolutionary Frustrated Pretext Ammunition

Book:Political writings

Source: Political writings

“I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.”

White Economic Workers Wellbeing Deteriorating

Author:Andy Stern

“God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.”

World Joy Faith Justice Compassion Laughter Fellows Workers Injustice Caring Agents Togetherness Transfiguration Laughter And Joy Fellow Workers

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.”

Made Given Opinion Cases Normal Workers Illness Propaganda Sickness Instruction Percentages Aircraft

Author:Albert Speer

“It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.”

People Workers Congress Minimum Aggravation Minimum Wage

Author:Russ Carnahan

“Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.”

People Thinking Believe Industry Program Workers Landscape Reasonable Guests Gardening Agriculture Farming

Author:Gary Miller

“The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.”

People Real Genius Workers Dreamer Idle Resolute

Author:George Henry Lewes

“I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.”

Way Giving Use Prayer Poor Special Talent Tears Fellows Workers Possessed Philanthropy Anguish Fellow Workers

Author:Dorothy Day

“Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.”

Hands Labor Tools Fruit Workers Productions

Book:We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

Source: We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

“People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ...It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.”

People Humans Hard Shows Hard Work Battle Activity Workers Affection Frustration Now And Then Elderly Human Activity Battle Of Life

Author:Duane Hanson

“To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.”

Hands Artist Mass Workers Productions Eras Weird Things Mass Production

Author:Susan Sontag

“We have always been a nation that has celebrated success of various kinds. The kid that gets the honor roll, the individual worker that gets a promotion, the person that gets a better job. And in fact, the person that builds a business. And by the way, if you have a business and you started it, you did build it. And you deserve credit for that.”

Ifs Way Kind Persons Facts Kids Jobs Individual Nations Honor Deserve Workers Various Credit Promotion Better Jobs Honor Roll

Author:Mitt Romney

“I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their sufferings in fellowship with Jesus Christ and to support all those who care for them. To all the ill, and to all the health-care workers and volunteers who assist them, I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing.”

World Helping Care Suffering Asks Jesus Christ Support Bears Blessing Jesus Christ Sick Twenties Workers Ill Health Care Mary Volunteer Who Cares Fellowship Impart Intercession Apostolic

Author:Pope Francis

“I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.”

Humans Has Beens Ends Computer Photography Machines Workers Photographer Eras Portraits Archeology

Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.”

People Thinking Cutting Cost Workers Customers Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:Nick Hanauer

“My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.”

People Giving Humans Use Together Mother Artist Energy Voice Human Beings Responsibility Accepting Exercise Workers Communicate Missions

Author:Patti Smith

“A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.”

Important Civilization Office Machines Structure Workers Breathing Pillars Laborers Workmen Cogs

Book:Scientology, a New Slant on Life

Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life

“The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.”

Real Whole Term Views Economic Broken Truth Is Slavery Workers Point Of View Whole Life Succession Starvation Compulsory Broken Up

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.”

Wells Industry Paid Unions Workers Customers Labor Union Working Conditions

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

“I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.”

Heart Strong My Heart Labor Dignity Safety Workers Appeals Addresses Protected

Author:Pope Francis

“These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”

Values Lost Brave Unions Workers Inspired Collectives Communist Forbidden Domination Poland Bargaining Dissidents Collective Bargaining

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.”

Company Century Institutions Workers Productions Valuable Productivity Assets 21st Century Equipment 20th Century Knowledge Workers

Book:Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“All great artists and thinkers are great workers.”

Artist Workers Thinker Great Art Great Work Great Artist

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”

People Done Jobs Leader Trust Workers Get The Job Done

Author:Simon Sinek

“There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer”

Social Vision Citizens Workers Hospitals Adequate Maids Laundry American Citizens Laborers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.”

Believe Easier Fellows Workers Trust In God Fellow Workers

Book:My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!”

Stills Age Past Jesus Names Christ Alive Jesus Christ Miracle Workers Miracle Worker

Author:T. B. Joshua

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