Quotes with laborers

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• Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

  ― Albert Bushnell Hart
  American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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• By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

  ― Friedrich Engels
  German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

  ― Marguerite Duras
  French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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• It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

  ― W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• aristocracies
• capitalists
• proletariat
• journalists
• aristocracy
• literature

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