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“The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.”

People Mind Kind Children Home Seems Jobs Causes Work White Workers Obvious Ruins Related Bombs Camps Mates Boots Frequency Collars White Collar Nadir Boot Camp Layoff

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.”

Work Rooms Expression Ideals Organization Workers

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.”

“All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.”

Realizing Percent Workers Tyranny Tyrants Cop

Author:Ray Lewis

“Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.”

Left Behinds Learning Successful Embrace Lifetime Workers Left Behind

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.”

Ifs Middle Lows Areas Increase Pressure Workers Income Inequality California Gas Trends Housing Low Income Gas Prices

Author:Alice Rivlin

“The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.”

Care Jobs Energy Millions Plans Areas Independence Workers Recovery Health Care Pockets Crucial Infrastructure New Job American Workers Energy Independence

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.”

Needs Giving Stills Deals Path Middle Special Labor Workers Currents Compromise Secure Aliens Borders Addresses Illegal Guests Citizenship Advocating Middle Ground Illegal Aliens

Author:John Shadegg

“There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth's.”

Years Littles Made Play Character Facts Social Missing Figures Late Workers Crafts Substance Remembrance Publishers Vans Neighbour Adjustment Succession Shepherds Social Worker Composites

Author:Alan Bennett

“With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.”

Helping Faith Numbers Lord Duty Succeed Workers Accomplished Multitudes Our Lord Fidelity Small Numbers

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

“The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.”

Needs Made Bigs Able Jobs Science Produce Ready Smart Window Crisis Workers Financial Deeper Math Holes Google Stimulus Financial Crisis Shovels

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.”

Important Together Political Influence Economic Fields Protect Intellectual Workers Secure Get Together Economic Status

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.”

Ifs Men May Might Running Remember President Party Responsibility Share He Man Thirds Workers California Ran Activist Vegetarian Peter Tickets Socialist Bookstores

Author:Jon Stewart

“My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.”

Hard Parent Hard Work Workers Mum Posh Hard Worker Yorkshire

Author:Sally Phillips

“We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.”

Giving Matter Imagine Cost Giving Up Percent No Matter What Workers Inflation Salary Freeze

Author:Shimon Peres

“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions”

Whole Problem Motivational Generations Modern Workers Work Out Lions Younger Generation

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.”

World Jobs America Faces Grows Quality Mines Materials Battle Highest Workers Finest Harvest Raw Materials Plentiful American Workers

Author:Christopher Bond

“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

People Knows Two Different Ends Example Identity Integrity Workers Co Worker Coming To An End Lack Of Integrity

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”

Hard Jesus Hard Work Workers Disciple Great Work

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.”

Knows Helping Today Next Social Generations Security Benefits Function Workers Finance Social Security Next Generation Premises

Author:Steve Israel

“So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.”

“When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.”

People Wells Doe Economic Industry Flow Workers Financial Access Fund Print Economic Systems Financial Services Service Industry

Author:Marc Faber

“The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.”

Business Company Economics Workers Profit Makers Farmers Wages Farming Labourers

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“International unity of the workers is more important than the national.”

Important Unity Workers International

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort”

Effort Return Equal Workers

Author:John Stossel

“My father was a manual worker.”

Father Workers Manuals

Author:Diane Abbott

“We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.”

Littles Happens Political Effects Evidence Raises Workers Employment Hiking Minimum Earning Minimum Wage Adverse Adverse Effects

Author:Paul Krugman

“[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.”

“Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.”

People Way Mean Facts Political Behinds Effects Benefits Percent Adults Increase Workers Scales Teenager Minimum Proven Wages Minimum Wage Ripple Hardworking Ripple Effect

Author:Joe Biden

“Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.”

Business Struggle Workers Determined Finance Bitter Capitalist Wages

Book:Early Writings

Source: Early Writings

“Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.”

Order Hours Results Economy Higher Demand Increase Paid Impact Structure Workers Rate Relative Minimum Wages Inflation Prudence Minimum Wage Gauges Living Wage

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.”

Firsts Has Beens Jobs Force Nations Hours Levels Opinion Economic Labor Workers Cents Minimum Predictions Catastrophe Salary Minimum Wage Boost Living Wage Underpaid Labor Force

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.”

People Workers Serving God Stewards

Book:Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure

Source: Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure

“One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.”

Reason Social Skills Workers Social Worker

Author:Margaret Beckett

“A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.”

Years Might Lasts Culture Individual Ten Workers Debt Camps Sugar Survived Arrivals Laborers Hemisphere Plantations Death Camps

Author:Ned Sublette

“I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.”

Knows Felt Workers Hardest Entitled

Author:Daryl Hall

“Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.”

Thinking World Children Two Social Sides Adults Argument Workers Boring Confused Better Place Two Sides Social Worker Jargon

Author:Nina Bawden

“I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.”

States United United States Issues Movement Labor Workers Correlation Labor Movement

Author:Andy Stern

“The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?”

Social Roles Movement Labor Workers Collectives Social Change Bargaining Labor Movement Collective Bargaining

Author:Andy Stern

“America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.”

Thinking I Can Two America Law Week Hard Work Ethics Harder Workers Holiday Work Ethic Two Weeks In-laws Work Harder Non Stop

Author:Dylan Moran

“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”

Wells Whole America Fall Poverty Struggle Essentials Workers Forgotten Edges Prosperity Treated Well Being Ashamed Cliffs Daily Struggle

Book:The Working Poor: Invisible in America

Source: The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.”

Thinking May Mean Hands Light Inspiration Spirit Jesus Speak Christ Lord Grace Limits Draws All Things Workers Efficiency Exhausted Good Will Doing Good

Author:Ellen G. White

“If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.”

Ifs Want Feels Workers Subtle Gang Translations Exquisite

Book:Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

Source: Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

“The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.”

Firsts Steps Achieve Workers Productive First Steps

Author:Peter Drucker

“It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.”

Want Doe Matter Responsibility Demand Workers Enterprise

Author:Peter Drucker

“Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.”

People Hands Bits Imagine Air Dying Workers Complaining Shoulders Ships Destination Metals Plates Bores Pakistan Work Place

Author:G.M.B. Akash

“What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.”

“A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.”

Politics Workers Aids Terrorist Bars Journalist Gaza Hamas

Author:Ralph Peters

“Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.”

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