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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Quotes by William Kunstler

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

Quotes by William Julius Wilson

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Quotes by William Cobbett

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

Quotes by Walter Duranty

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Quotes by Thomas Dekker

As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

Quotes by Suzan DelBene

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch

Without labor nothing prospers.

Sophocles

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Quotes by Sidney Hillman

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Quotes by Rudolf Hilferding

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Quotes by Robert Burns

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Quotes by Richard Cobden

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

Quotes by Phil Murphy

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

Quotes by Phil Gingrey

In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.

Quotes by Peter Schiff

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Quotes by Peter Jackson

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Quotes by Peter Jennings

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

Quotes by Paul Hoffman

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

Quotes by Paul Hoffman

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.

Quotes by Paul Harvey

Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.

Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

Quotes by Nina Easton

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Quotes by Niall Matter

The impact of technology on labor has become clearer and clearer by the day.

Quotes by Moshe Vardi

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

Quotes by Michael Richards

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

Quotes by Michael Rady

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Quotes by Marty Robbins

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

Quotes by Marc Racicot

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Quotes by Lupe Ontiveros

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.

Quotes by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Quotes by Leland Stanford

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Quotes by Leland Stanford

School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

Quotes by Larry Hogan

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Quotes by Lara Giddings

Labor Day means grilling outside!

Quotes by Katie Lee

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Quotes by John Thorn

All wealth is the product of labor.

Quotes by John Locke

I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

Quotes by John Harsanyi

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

Quotes by John Bates Clark

Gothenburg is the Baltimore or Liverpool or Marseille of Sweden - plagued by the death of wharfs and other industries, and with complex segregation of the populace from southern Europe, which once brought in a labor force that suddenly found itself living in remote projects without jobs.

Quotes by Johan Renck

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Quotes by Jill Lepore

President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.

Quotes by Jan Schakowsky

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Quotes by James Whistler

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

Quotes by James P. Hoffa

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

Quotes by Jalen Rose

Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Quotes by Ian Hunter

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Quotes by Horace

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Quotes by Holly Near

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

Quotes by Hilda Solis

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

Quotes by Hilda Solis

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Quotes by Henry Kissinger

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Quotes by Henry George

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Quotes by Henry George

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Quotes by Harold Wilson

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

My government has been playing catch-ups building the schools, hospitals, roads and transport links our state needs to deal with our growing population after years of do-nothing Labor governments.

Quotes by Gladys Berejiklian

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Quotes by George W. Romney

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Quotes by Georg Simmel

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

Quotes by Gavin Newsom

Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental concept of labor agreements.

Quotes by Gabrielle Carteris

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Quotes by Francis Quarles

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

Quotes by Ferdinand Lassalle

My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.

Quotes by Eva Amurri

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

Quotes by Eli Yishai

I am not a labor hater.

Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Quotes by Doug Larson

I had, like, four Sigur Ros records on my playlist when I was in labor.

Quotes by Domino Kirke

When more women join the labor force and, particularly, become entrepreneurs, GDP rises dramatically in those countries - in both developed and developing economies.

Quotes by Dina Powell

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Quotes by David Hume

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Quotes by Daniel Webster

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Quotes by Dana Rohrabacher

'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.

Quotes by Cynthia Stevenson

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

Quotes by Conrad Black

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Quotes by Chris Hayes

This is a business of love and labor.

Quotes by Chester Bennington

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Quotes by Charles M. Schwab

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Quotes by Campbell Newman

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Quotes by Brigham Young

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Quotes by Booker T. Washington

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

Quotes by Boots Riley

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