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Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .”

Ifs World Want Hands Winning Powerful Arms Labor Property Workers Pockets Capitalist Solidarity Folds

Author:Joseph James Ettor

“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”

“If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.”

Ifs Hands Class Labor Workers Organized Pockets Capitalist Organized Labor

Author:Bill Haywood

“The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.”

People Poor Pay Ethics Labor Organization Workers Internals Minimum Wages Poor People Minimum Wage

Author:Aruna Roy

“We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.”

World Dream Earth Together Asks Community Powerful Labor Unions Workers Around The World New World Ashes Powerless

Author:Andy Stern

“I want to make a film about a factory worker.”

Want Film Workers Factories Factory Workers

Author:Richard Linklater

“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.”

Millions Five Thousand Hundred Workers Revolt Bourgeois

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.”

People Want Self Levels Conditions Type Highest Organization Crisis Workers What You Want Revolutionary Soviet Committees Council

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.”

Problem Class Organization Workers Come Up Concrete Working Class

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.”

World Way Years Has Beens Important Certain Revolution Workers

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Way Economy Impossible Labor Function Workers Strikes Selling Live By Capitalist Capitalist Economy

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.”

Thinking Jobs Social Teacher Our Lives Century Workers 21st Century Flexibility Social Worker Foster Care

Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

“While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.”

Kind Children Littles Wanted Political Jesus Social Christ Christianity Dog Messages Workers Divinity Orthodox Be Kind Social Worker Old Lady Orthodox Christianity Small Dogs

Author:N. T. Wright

“So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.”

Ifs Needs Kind Certain Community College Workers Available Stuck Affordable Curriculum Community College

Author:George W. Bush

“Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.”

Today America Young Taxes Paid Absolutes Workers Fixed Disgrace Present Day America Today

Author:John McCain

“Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.”

Long Term Economy Workers Long Term Unemployment

Author:Janet Yellen

“So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.”

Ifs Knows Way Has Beens Done Happens Known Millions Dollars Workers Come Up Damage Million Dollars Labs Containers

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.”

“Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!”

People Mind Doe Book Together Prayer Sin Half Produce Humility Wall Built Hatred Workers Holiness Lectures Revival Seminars Nehemiah

Author:David Wilkerson

“The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.”

Needs Office Workers Diminish

Book:The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.”

Kind Children Care Faces One Thing Pride And Love Workers All Kinds I've Learned Things I've Learned Indignity Work And Love

Author:Ai-jen Poo

“Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.”

War Fighting Force Industry Workers Partners

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.”

Men Today Mines Gay Female Ideals Workers Males Coal Gay Men

Author:Camille Paglia

“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”

“For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.”

People Way Feels Trying Long Helping Social Music Is Long Time Workers Social Worker

Author:Iris DeMent

“From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.”

World Desire Organization Trade Workers Congress Rational Platforms

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!”

Country Numbers Workers Our Country France Germany Prisoner Large Numbers

Author:Pierre Laval

“Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.”

Values Understanding Challenges Knowing Essentials Lows Organization Workers Productivity Improving Articulating Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .”

People Men Ideas Young Names Written Couple Workers Communism No Idea Young Man Spokes Communist Nevertheless Manifestos Communist Manifesto

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.”

Way Together Prayer Workers Supreme Praying To God

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.”

Has Beens Character Interest Business Quality Too Much Products Structure Dollars Workers Consumers

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.”

Mind Heart Body Spirit Attitude Teacher Scientist Workers Athlete Missionary Reconstruction

Author:Y. C. James Yen

“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.”

Made Stories Energy Company Boys Sea Fields Fool Singing Unions Workers Dues Oil Alternatives Listen To Me Oil Field

Author:Woody Guthrie

“It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.”

Wells Benefits Paid Workers Schemes Employers Australian Parental

Author:Chris Bowen

“The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.”

America Moved Extraordinary Workers Productivity Instance Unusual Wages Tandem

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.”

Trying Humans Doe Rights Violence Labor Trade Environmental Workers Human Rights Protection Agreement Organize Environmental Protection Trade Agreements

Author:Barack Obama

“The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.”

Stills Workers Favors Typical Ceo Deck

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.”

Thinking Should Moral Issues Workers Ceo Moral Issues

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.”

Years Today Jobs America Lost Hours Millions Trade Workers Average Decent Agreement Wages America Today Trade Agreements

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?”

People Ifs Ends Home Care Particular Benefits Workers Health Care Engaged Knowledge Workers

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.”

Knows Stills Views Greater Position Ought Equal Benefits Accounts Workers Point Of View Expected Campaigns Saving Savings Savings Accounts

Author:George H. W. Bush

“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.”

Desire Certain Force Difficult Tools Lays Workers Humble Triumph Significance Sculpture Penetrate Renunciation

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.”

Thinking World Care Freedom Slavery Workers Unhappy Feeding Salary Migrants Monsanto Migrant Workers Feeding The World

Author:Wendell Berry

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.”

Persons Doe Important Wealth Source Industry Labor Important Things Workers

Book:Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism

Source: Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism

“Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.”

Today Forget Produce Succeed Lifetime Workers Executives Desks Ceo Cleaning Maxims Toilets Cleanliness American Workers Getting Fired Payday

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.”

People Facts Lost Work Workers Good Work

Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

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