#working people

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. ↗

— Helen Clark

#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. ↗

— William Greider

#died #job #lived #most #only

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#heartbeat #like #millions #people #pulsating

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#again #best #best way #create #growth

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #always #budgets #day #decision

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#economic growth #generator #government #growth #people

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attitudes #corporation #distrust #ed #evidence

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#better #better life #bring #democracy #dignity

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#german people #holders #liberation #over #people

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#doing #down #economy #faster #few