It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
Ah, why should life all labor be?
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for. . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.
There is no liberation without labor. . . and there is no freedom which is free.
I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
In the practice of art. . . it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry. . . may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
