"I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the proces…."
Benjamin Harrison (1889/93)
Tenho pena do homem que, ao querer um casaco tão barato, contribua para que os homens ou as mulheres que produzem os tecidos ou os transformem em peças de roupa acabem por morrer de fome neste processo."
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Maria Abreu