Tunde Adebimpe Quotes

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Unemployed people are spoiled

I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

Unemployment is painful.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

Treating unemployment as a national problem is almost always a mistake. Employment trends vary dramatically by race, geography, gender and level of education. But none of that is reflected in the all-encompassing unemployment rate, and hence policies informed only by that number are bound to fall short.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

Without work men are utterly undone

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.