True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us. – Henry Cabot Lodge
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they’re done by farmers that don’t communicate with one another. They’re never in the same room together. – Howard Graham Buffett
Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. – Hjalmar Branting
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we’d grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. – Holly Near
As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can’t let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor. – Hank Johnson
Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor. – Hilda Solis
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. – Henry George
Although women do two-thirds of the world’s labor, they own less than one percent of the world’s assets. – Isabel Allende
Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. – Janet Yellen
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. – Joyce Carol Oates
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. – John Ruskin
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state. – Isaac Herzog
Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. – James Weldon Johnson
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled. – James Surowiecki
I’m not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners. – Antonio Villaraigosa
The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack. – Janet Yellen
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties. – Conrad Black
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of. – Ami Ayalon
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. – Benjamin Tucker