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Joan Blades

"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

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"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

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Amber Hurdle

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

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Amber Hurdle

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

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Amber Hurdle

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

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Amber Hurdle

"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."

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"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."

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Amber Hurdle

"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."

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Amber Hurdle

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."

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Joan Blades
"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do."

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Joan Blades
"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."

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Joan Blades
"I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country."

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Joan Blades
"People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions."

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Joan Blades
"We are mortgaging our future."

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Joan Blades
"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."

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Joan Blades
"Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home."

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Joan Blades
"The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent."

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Joan Blades
"When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff."

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Joan Blades
"What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it."

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