Working People Quotes

“All people who work with their hands are party invisible, and the more important the work they do, the more invisible they are.”
― George Orwell, Essays

“If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can't see you, but it can crush you. And if that's the working world, then I don't want to be a part of it.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Every single Australian benefits from superannuation, Medicare, the weekend and the minimum wage - these were all won by our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents taking non-violent, so-called illegal industrial action.
Working people only take these measures when the issue is one of justice, like ensuring workers' safety on a worksite, a fair day's pay for a fair day's work or to uphold or improve the rights of working people.
Without the Australian trade union movement our country would look like the US where these rights are inadequate or do not exist.”
― Sally McManus, On Fairness

“The audience was composed of the lower stratum of white working people: hard-faced, lantern-jawed, dull-eyed adult children, seeking like all humanity for something permanent in the eternal flux of life. The young girls in their cheap finery with circus makeup on their faces; the young men, aged before their time by child labor and a violent environment; the middle-aged folk with their shiny, shabby garb and beaten countenances; all ready and eager to be organized for any purpose except improvement of their intellects and standard of living.”
― George S. Schuyler, Black No More