Workers Quotes
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I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.
Christina Aguilera
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Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear John O'Connor yelling, `Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, `This is interesting.'
Nat Hentoff
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Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.
William Henry Bragg
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What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.
Rose Schneiderman
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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
Leon Trotsky
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Ernest Mandel
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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
August Spies
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I have seen workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of excess ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... from irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.
Bernardino Ramazzini
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
Bernard Crick
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What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.
George J. Borjas
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We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.
Mo Brooks
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The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.
Ernest Mandel
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The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
Scott Adams
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
Raymond Williams
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
George Henry Lewes
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.
David E. Bonior
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All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.
Georges Sorel
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The resettlement of populations scattered by war and by enemy occupation is one of the problems with which Europe will be most urgently faced when the occupied countries are set free. Since hostilities began, millions of people have left homes destroyed or threatened with destruction; millions more have been transplanted, deported, or expelled to make room for foreign newcomers who have taken over their property; millions of others again have been taken prisoner or individually recruited as workers and sent away from their countries to serve the occupying power.
Eugene M. Kulischer
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The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.
Barry Libert
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All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.
Bernardino Ramazzini