#labor

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #better #came #conditions #disadvantage

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#coal #could #fields #fight #figures

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. ↗

— Mother Jones

#career #cross #early #i #labor

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration. ↗

— Norah Jones

#interaction #making #me #music #part

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#bloodshed #hard #i #labored #trouble

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#administration #against #bush #bush administration #called

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #explores #given #his #historic

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#driving #i #labor #needed #sleepless

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#banned #been #blood #courted #doctors