Labor sayings

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◆ Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

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◆ Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

- Karl Marx99

◆ Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

- Helen Varney99

◆ No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

- Greg Kincaid99

◆ The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long.

- Lya Sorano99

◆ Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

- Dwight D Eisenhower99

◆ Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

- Bob Black99

◆ Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

- Aaliyah99

◆ Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ LABOR PAINS BUT PAYS.

- PANDIT MUSTAFA ARIF99

◆ . . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration Service has removed strikebreakers. . . .The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking . . .

- Cesar Chavez99

◆ If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?

- Lucy Parsons99

◆ Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

- Mary Ellen Chase99

◆ Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu99