Whitney M. Young Quotes

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

I hate being out of work!

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

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Unemployment is painful.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Having no work would be terrible.

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

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 never could get a proper job.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.