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Re:Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam by Tloewald on Thursday January 09, 2014 @10:06AM (#7030806)
There was a wonderful Greenpeace poster from back in the 80s which had these words:

"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money."

It wasn't about workers' rights, but something along those lines seems to fit.

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Re:Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam by skriticos2 on Thursday January 09, 2014 @10:45AM (#7031079)
I always liked that quote, though the Greenpeace association is new to me. It supposedly originated as a native american proverb:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

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Re:Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam by makomk on Thursday January 09, 2014 @11:00AM (#7031189)
If you read that link, it's not so much a native american proverb as it is a quote from a specific person who's a native american. I know the fact that actual attribution of this quote, and other things said by Native Americans, gets ignored and their quotes attributed to some kind of vague native wisdom actually seems to piss a lot of people off.
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Re:Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam by velis_vel on Thursday January 09, 2014 @11:14AM (#7031271)
The attribution of things to 'ancient Native American proverbs' is reminiscent of the whole 'noble savage' trope.
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