Quotes of: Labors Keyword

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

William Kunstler

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Kailash Satyarthi

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Malala Yousafzai

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Doug Larson

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.

Ina May Gaskin

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Leland Stanford

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Andy Stern

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Lucy Larcom

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Les Misérables

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Peter Jennings

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Michael Moore

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Alexis Herman

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Carol Bellamy

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

Chinese

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor. I prefer soft, and I’d prefer not giving birth.

$3.33

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Theodore Roosevelt