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Workers' rights2 quotes
"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle · 1843I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world. — Abraham Lincoln · 1860Citizen and state1 quote
"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle · 1843Human rights1 quote
"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle · 1843