"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Labor, Work, Humility, Respect, Equality

"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Labor, Injustice, Business, Exploitation, Profit

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Labor, Work, Values, Equality, Society

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Labor, Land, Occupation, Taxation

"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

Labor, Will

"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Labor, Work, Stability, Routine, Control

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."

Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

Labor, Man, Universe

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

Henry Miller, American Author

Labor, Strength, Work, Spirit, Action

"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Labor, Employment, Freedom, Society, Work

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

Barack Obama, American President

Labor, Family, Health, Work

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"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

Man

"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

Politics

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

Death

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."

Man

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

Life

"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."

Truth

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"

"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

Explore more quotes by Mary Harris Jones

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."

"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."