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"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
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"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."
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
"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."
"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
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"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
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