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Labor omnia vincit

Labor omnia vincit or Labor omnia vincit improbus is a Latin phrase meaning "Work conquers all". The phrase is adapted from Virgil's Georgics, Book I, lines 145–6: ...Labor omnia vicit / improbus ("Steady work overcames all things"). The poem was written in support of Augustus Caesar's "Back to the land" policy, aimed at encouraging more Romans to become farmers.[citation needed]

Labor omnia vincit inscribed on a floor tile showing the UBC Emblem.[1]
Labor Omnia Vincit 1657, Glasgow Cathedral
Seal of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States

Labor movement

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A frequent motto within the U.S labor movement, the phrase is a historically significant slogan. Used by the earliest U.S labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor and other precursors to the modern AFL-CIO, the motto continues to be a traditional and defining statement of purpose on contemporary labor union emblems including the International Union of Operating Engineers and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The motto also appears on the original 1925 flag of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the labor union of African-American Pullman Company porters founded by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. The College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India and founded in the year 1794 has the phrase "Labor Omnia Vincit" in its logo. This may be the earliest adoption of the phrase by any organization.

 
Inscription on the Kroch High-rise, Leipzig, Germany

The motto is used by the Geelong Trades Hall Council in Australia. It is also put up on the facade of the Kroch High-rise in Leipzig, Germany.[2]

Cities, states, and recreation

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The phrase is also a frequent motto across many townships, cities, and states. Currently the state motto of the State of Oklahoma and incorporated into its state seal in 1907, the slogan originally appeared on the territorial seal of Oklahoma Territory. In addition, it has been known to be the motto of the city of El Eulma, Algeria as shown on its coat of arms, of the towns and cities of Bradford, West Yorkshire, West Bromwich, and Ilkeston in England, the motto of Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales and the state motto of Zacatecas granted by King Phillip II in 1588 and the city of León, State of Guanajuato, Mexico, and in the city of Presidente Prudente, Brazil. It is also the motto of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, as well as the city of Polokwane, formerly known as Pietersburg in South Africa. It is the motto of Carlton Cricket Club in Barbados. It is also the motto of Kajang High School and St Jago High School (Jamaica), St Paul's Secondary School, Kabwe Zambia, as well as Mitchell High School in Durban, South Africa. It is a slogan of the football clubs Rasta IL in Norway and Luton Borough Youth in England. The phrase can be seen written in the golden letters on the so-called Kroch-Hochhaus in the center of German city Leipzig. It is also the motto of West Bromwich Albion FC • In cinema this slogan was used in a landmark French picture "Le Voyage dans la lune" or "A Trip To The Moon" a silent film brought to life in 1902 by director Georges Méliès. This is a classic vision about a group of men venturing to the moon and back. The scene in which the slogan is depicted comes at the end when they return to earth. Celebrating the triumph, a statue is brought forth with a scholar pointing to the heavens with the word SCIENCE surrounded by olive branches on the base, above this states the term LABOR • OMNIA • VINCIT

Educational institutions

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Many educational institutions have adopted the phrase as a motto, including:

Africa

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  • Bhujoharry College (Boys), Port Louis, Mauritius
  • Flintstone Engineering, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Universidade A Politecnica, Maputo, Mozambique
Angola
  • Moçâmedes, est. 1840, Angola
South Africa

Mitchell High School, Durban, South Africa

Ghana (West Africa)
Kenya ( Eastern Africa)
  • Menengai High School, Nakuru Kenya
  • Mombasa Technical Training Institute, Mombasa Kenya
  • Olkejuado High School, Kajiado Kenya
Lesotho (Southern Africa)
  • Mamathe High School, Teya-teyaneng, Berea, Lesotho
Nigeria (West Africa)
  • Offa Grammar School, Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria
South Africa
  • Robert Carruthers Primary School, Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa
  • Tshepagalang High School Northwest [Brit]
Zambia (Southern Africa)
  • St Paul's Mulungushi Secondary School, Kabwe, Zambia, founded in 1960 by Marist Brothers.

Sierra Leone (West Africa)

  • St Helena A.M.E. Secondary school

Asia

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Hong Kong
India
Malaysia

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Singapore
Sri Lanka
Thailand

Europe

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Finland
Romania
Spain
United Kingdom

Turkey

North America

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Canada
Caribbean and Central America
Mexico
United States

Oceania

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  • Suva Sangam College, Suva, Fiji Islands
Australia
New Zealand

South America

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  • The Bishops' High School, Guyana
Argentina
  • Balmoral College, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Escuela Nº 1 Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, Concordia, Argentina
  • Instituto San José de Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Ecuador
  • Academia Naval Illingworth, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Peru
  • Peruvian Northamerican Abraham Lincoln School, Lima, Peru

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Hocquél, Wolfgang (2023). Architekturführer Leipzig. Von der Romanik bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Leipzig: Passage Verlag. pp. 120–122. ISBN 978-3-95415-128-8.
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