Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

No human being has the right to be idle... Women must, as children of God, be trained to do some work in the world.

I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Work—honest work—is not degrading. The man who by honest toil earns an honest living is a peer of the realm.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

All men are born free. Some are certainly endowed with grater intelligence, stronger will or a greater portion of wealth than others, but that gives them—the cleverer, the stronger, the richer—not the least right to rule over the duller, the weaker, the poorer. God, the Father of us all, has made mankind, without exception, to be happy, and so the obligation is laid on us, as far as is possible, to make each other happy.

It doesn't matter if I am the lead or a man is the lead actor in a film. What really matters to me is that I give my 100 per cent to my job.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

It's about hard work and not gender.

I want everyone to work to be equal!

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Labor is no disgrace.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.

Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.