quotes about Sweatshops

last updated: November 28, 2023

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.
-- James Connolly

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My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
-- Jeffrey Sachs

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Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
-- Marc Anthony

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
-- Norman Finkelstein

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Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing.
-- Michael Yates

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“Is any blogger out there saying anythingâ€”do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.”

Source : "HUFFPOST HILL - 7,000,000 Congress Fans Can’t Be Wrong", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.
“You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.”
“To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.”
“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

Source : "A Few Words to a Young Writer" by Ursula K. Le Guin, www.ursulakleguin.com. 2008.
“What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012
“It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself.”
“My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.”
“Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.”
“Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.”

Source : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.60, Lulu.com
“For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.”