Big Sean Quotes

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

Those who claim they are the prisoners of the laws of economics, only testify that they are prisoners of the idol.

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

No one who wants to work should be hindered by bureaucratic restrictions and go to black market work.

Pullman, who has grown so rich from the toil of his workingmen, that he can riot in luxury, while he heartlessly turns these very workmen out of their tenements into the streets and leave to the tender mercies of corporate greed.

My sister women, those struggling with social problems, and those who slave all their lives long for a community – shop, factory and domestic slaves, earning barely a subsistence, and thrown aside to death or the parish when they are no longer profitable – mothers, bearing and rearing children, seeing them go forth… and spending their own last years, lonely and unconsidered in the cheerless wards of the workhouse.

It’s dangerous to live among poor people, because if they don’t have income, they are coming for you.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, yet upon which they must not stand too long lest the policeman bid them "move on"; as long as they go from factory to factory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses and foremen, getting the old "no," the old shake of the head, in these factories they built, whose machines they wrought; so long as they consent to herd like cattle, in the cities, driven year after year, more and more, off the mortgaged land, the land they cleared, fertilized, cultivated, rendered of value; so long as they stand shivering, gazing thro' plate glass windows at overcoats, which they made, but cannot buy, starving in the midst of food they produced but cannot have; so long as they continue to do these things vaguely relying upon some power outside themselves, be it god, or priest, or politician, or employer, or charitable society, to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind.