Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“United Fruit... United Thieves Company... its a monopoly ... if you wont take their prices they let your limes rot on the wharf; its a monopoly. You boys are working for a bunch of thieves, but I know it aint your fault.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemakers productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husbands pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)