Lauryn Hill Quotes

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

I have huge debts, and know of no other way to resolve them than to re-enter the slave trade.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.