Labor Standards Amendment

Famous quotes containing the words labor, standards and/or amendment:

    “His Labor is a Chant—
    His Idleness—a Tune—
    Oh, for a Bee’s experience
    Of Clovers, and of Noon!”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)