#worker

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#american #american people #congress #listened #minimum-wage

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#actor #ant #done #guess #high

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#becoming #belong #born #conscious #course

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#conscience #dignity #harmony #intelligentsia #live

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#came #conviction #courageous #dedicated #defense

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#always #bathroom #even #go #i

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#back #believe #broad #business #business people

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#always #borne #europe #forgotten #help

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced