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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
Social Issues
"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."
Nation
"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
People
"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected."
People
"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish."
Power
"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money."
Money
"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish."
Action
"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens."
Time
"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."
Labor
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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Personal Development
"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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Personal Development
"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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Personal Development
"Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all."
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Personal Development
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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Personal Development
"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."
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