Labor Quotes

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. (Pope Leo XIII, 1810-1903)

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945)

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good. (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

There is no real wealth but the labor of man. Where the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race. (Percy B. Shelley, 1792-1822)

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