Unemployment Quotes

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When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Darrin Grimwood

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People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

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It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a

It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a segment of our country which has made it a way of life

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