Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as muc...h money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass s...tate of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly... acquired value--to myself, to my family, and to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are alwa...ys surrounded by the most terrible temptation. Oh, I know that some of [the] greatest reformers insist that a girl's virtue is not affected by under-nourishment, disease and nervous collapse; but if these well housed, well fed, well dressed people were put in a dirty, ugly room, if their clothes did not protect them from the cold, if their stomachs were never filled, would not even the staunchest lose some of her self-respect when looking forward to an old age? It is only a matter of wonder to me that so many girls keep clean and decent through it all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is against Stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sens...e on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By ...proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage--in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down f...rom the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a call to life a little sterner, And braver for the earner, learner, yearner.... Less criticism of the field and court And more preoccupation with the sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »