A Quote by Ella Baker

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

Ella Baker

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Ella Baker
American - Activist
December 13, 1903 - December 13, 1986

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Jesse Jackson

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

Allan Sherman

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

Ludwig von Mises

To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.

Bob Golic

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.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

Anna Kendrick

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.

Amber Rudd

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

Frances McDormand

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Hans Blix

As soon as we finish a tour, I think, 'Oh my god, I'm unemployed.' I swear to God, every time I'm not touring, I hear my father yelling, 'You're unemployed if you're not working every day.'

John Rzeznik

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

Henry A. Wallace

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Norman Finkelstein

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

Noam Chomsky

So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

Louie Gohmert

In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.

Adolf Hitler

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