379 Quotes About Labor

Always a good listener, FDR was at his best in these exchanges. "I want you to feel that you can come to me at any time in my office," he was soon telling union spokesmen, "and we can talk matters over. Let's get together for I need you to teach me your business and show me what's going on.

Strong unions require solidarity and solidarity in turn demands that workers must forego some degree of individual freedom in order to take advantage of the greater freedom they can win when they act as one.

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

İyi bir işin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri artık örtüşmüyordu.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insanın karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlatıya dönüşmesini engelleyen çılgın zaman deneyimi arasında bir çatışma yarattı.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.