Quote Genre: Wages

Henry David Thoreau – ‘Most men would feel insulted…

‘Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall and then in throwing them back merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.’

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Upton Sinclair – ‘It is difficult to get a man…

‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’

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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis – ‘Low wages are not cheap wage…

‘Low wages are not cheap wages.’

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Henry Ward Beecher – ‘Victories that are cheap are…

‘Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.’

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Marian Anderson – ‘When I sing I dont want them…

‘When I sing I dont want them to see that my face is black; I dont want them to see that my face is white I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.’

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W. Kelly Griffith – ‘Any necessary work that pays…

‘Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.’

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Thomas Carlyle – ‘A fair days wage for a fair …

‘A fair days wage for a fair days work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.’

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