Laborers Quotes - Page 1

I class myself as a manual laborer.
Theodore White / Journalist
Class
Laborers
Manuals
Laborer
Manual
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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Ancestor
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Irving Stone / Writer
Artist
Firsts
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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
William Wordsworth / Poet
Laborers
Tasks
Wind
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Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
Walt Disney / Animator
Design
Development
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel Gompers / Labor Union Leader
Common
Common Interests
Impossible
Laborers
Struggle
Capitalists
Interests
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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
Anne Bradstreet / Poet
Hands
Hard
Laborers
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
Vincent Van Gogh / Painter
Art
Fields
Laborers
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Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.
Charles E. Merrill /
Discharge
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Mr
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In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Economics
Grows
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Marguerite Duras / Writer
Journalism
Laborers
Literature
Passionate
Workers
Journalists
Manual
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The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.
Danny Trejo / Actor
Dealer
Drug
Laborers
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What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Marilyn Monroe / Actress
Brother
Laborers
Needs
Real
Stars
Arabs
Brothers
Feeling
Jews
Real Feeling
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Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Class
Laborers
Miserable
Paid
Term
Wages
White
Years
Everywhere
Besides
Servants
Slaves
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If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
Charles E. Merrill /
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
Jack Bowman /
Bully
Gang
Laborers
Low Income
Seattle
South
Choice
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Joined
Park
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin / Art Critic
Men
Articles
Exchanging
Foolish
Giving Up
Laborers
Titles
Unions
Vain
Work Men Live
Producing
Title
Trades
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
Om Puri / Actor
Disparity
Environment
Laborers
Paid
Roles
Seeing
Sensitive
Me People Emotions
Naturally
Beggars
Came
Emotions
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Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Rudolf Arnheim / Author
Animal
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Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.
Kevin De Leon /
Immigration
Laborers
Maids
Officers
Arrest
Communities
Duties
Local
Otherwise
Police Officers
Pulled
Violations
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I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
Chris Ware / Artist
Respect
Medical
Cartoonist
Independent
Laborers
Nice
Thinking
Be Nice
Practically
Marginal
Oddity
Whose
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Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
Alan Huffman /
Asia
Destination
Each Day
Laborers
Nations
Plentiful
Africa
Americas
Board
Final
Plane
Travelers
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Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
Steven Rattner / Financier
Executives
Eye
Financiers
Growing
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Laborers
Pay
Pay Gap
Tales
Universe
Aware
Nearly
Master
Every American
Gap
Hardly
Shop
Painfully
Widening
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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Pet
Abuse
Admire
Family Members
Humans
Laborers
Members
Pests
Love Family Relationship
Beasts
Cage
Cook
Companions
Fraught
Pets
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
Jose Ferreira /
Diligent
Employers
Hiring
Laborers
Mechanism
Naturally
Best Work Will
Worker
Businesspeople
Promote
Sponsor
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I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?
William Lloyd Garrison / Journalist
Accused
Brother
Fraud
Laborers
Villainy
Admit
Charge
Describe
Hire
Identify
Perpetrator
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Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them there were 'indentured laborers,' taken out of jails in England and Scotland and so forth and brought to the colonies to work out their terms in the fields and then be set free.
Lorne Greene /
Laborers
Scotland
Colonies
Forth
Jails
Slaves
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The changing climate is pushing already vulnerable communities into crisis situations. Children with asthma are forced to miss school and stay inside due to poor air quality. Day laborers and construction workers must work outside in dangerous temperatures. People without homes are unable to escape the impacts of hotter summers and wetter winters.
Ted Wheeler /
Asthma
Construction
Hotter
Laborers
Pushing
Due
Escape
Forced
Homes
Impacts
Summers
Temperatures
Unable
Winters
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