Labor quotes

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◆ I wonder if the clothes in China say, 'Made around the corner.'

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◆ All wealth is the product of labor.

- John Locke99

◆ Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

- Ralph Ransom99

◆ What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,

- Samuel Gompers99

◆ Without labor nothing prospers.

- Sophocles99

◆ All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

- William Morley Punshon99

◆ The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

- Wendell Phillips99

◆ Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L Lewis99

◆ The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

- Cesar Chavez99

◆ A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton99

◆ The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy99

◆ If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

- Lane Kirkland99