Labor Quotes

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tom Hayden
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Alan Bersin
- People
- Labor
- Mexico

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

Sandra Cisneros
- People
- Different
- Problem
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Paul Keating
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.

Naomi Wallace
- Culture
- Language
- Voice
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

John Ruskin
- Labor
- Evils
- Rids
If he Thomas Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla
The true artist can only labor con amore.

Victor Hugo
- Artist
- Labor