Happy Labor Day!
MamaNYC’s Labor Day Quotes [Part 2]
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Here is part TWO of my Labor Day Quotes, Saying, and Phrases here on MamaNYC! Wishing all of you a very HAPPY Labor Day – and a splendid end of summer celebration! Whether you are planning a barbeque with the family, or relaxing at home.. enjoy!
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When people ask me, ‘Why can’t labor organize the way it did in the thirties?’ the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal. - Thomas Geoghegan |
| A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein |
| Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. - Bill Dodds |
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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. - Henry George |
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If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. - Doug Larson |
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Nonbureaucratic, participative, solidarity-driven, noncommercial, arty. With all those manifest virtues, you have to wonder why a setup like this can’t seem to last any longer than a Labor Day weekend. - Bruce Sterling |
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King Jr |
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. - Adam Smith |
| Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. – Ulysses S. Grant |
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. - Ralph Ransom |
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There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That’s a power, that’s a power that must rule in every land. - Joe Hill |
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. - Abraham Lincoln |
| Without labor nothing prospers. - Sophocles |
| Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. - Samuel Gompers |
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt |
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Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts. - Mary Ellen Chase |
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. - William Cobbett |
| Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. - Author Unknown |
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Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. - Thorstein Veblen |
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Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave. Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? - Joe Hill |
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. - John Locke |
| International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible. - Samora Machel |
| Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don’t think it’s going to be easy. It’s hard! - Aaliyah |
| No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living. - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers. - Robert Green Ingersoll |
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God sells us all things at the price of labor. – Leonardo da Vinci |
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with. - Samuel Gompers |
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures - Samuel Gompers |
About Nicole
Nicole is a stay-at-home mom living on the outskirts of Manhattan with her husband and their 3-year-old son. She is also expecting a second child in January 2013.
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