White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then th...ey owned both their wives and their wages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Huw: Bron, would you have me to live in this house, and have my wages? Bronwen: Your home is with your mother.... Huw: It was she who sent me. Bronwen: From pity. Huw: No, from sense. If you put clothes on night and morning, let them be my clothes. Bronwen: Good old man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for th...e shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of ...your towns. You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the LORD against you, and you would incur guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the on...e who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, th...e policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician--these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some so...rt of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint.... Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »