The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men. Leland Stanford Read Quote
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. Leland Stanford Read Quote
In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. Leland Stanford Read Quote
I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex. Leland Stanford Read Quote
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. Leland Stanford Read Quote
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. Leland Stanford Read Quote
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. Leland Stanford Read Quote
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. Leland Stanford Read Quote
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. Leland Stanford Read Quote
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. Leland Stanford Read Quote
