Labor Exploitation Quotes

Labor in white skin cannot be free so long as labor in a black skin is branded.

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

Whom do I hate most, among all the rabble of to-day?' The Socialist who undermines the workingman's instincts, who destroys his satisfaction with his insignificant existence, who makes him envious and teaches him revenge.”

Capital is dead labor, that vampire like, only lives by sucking living labor.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books—in its effect, not its intent.

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Workers cannot buy with their salaries what they have produced and at the same time copiously nourish the swarm of idlers who live upon their work.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

In the society of to-day the means of production are a monopoly of the capitalistic class; the dependence of the working classes which results from this is the cause of misery and of servitude in all its forms.

Capitalism in one century of growth has enormously increased its power, not only through expansion over the entire earth, but also through development into new forms

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

There is nothing to arbitrate. Workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive. This is solely the business of the company.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

As labor is the common burden of our race so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden on to the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Allowing slavery will starve the poor white laborer.