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Leland Stanford

"Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association."

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"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."

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"Labor diligently to increase your property."

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"Labor gives birth to ideas."

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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."

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"In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization."

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"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."

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Eraldo Banovac

"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."

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Eraldo Banovac

"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."

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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
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"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends."
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"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
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"I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion."
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"The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems."
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"In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed."
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"Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive."
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Leland Stanford
"Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers."
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"The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none."
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"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."
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