Welfare Quotes - Page 8

• If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.

  Robert Hass

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Order, Punishment, Going Away

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, California, Tasks

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• After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

  Van Jones

  Trying, Pushing, Wealth

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Asking Questions, Offering

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

  Harry Magdoff

  Growth, Done, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

  Adam Hochschild

  Mother, Long Ago, Talking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produced problems are now relegated to the mantra of individual solutions.

  Henry Giroux

  Way, Problem, Protection

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

  Henry Giroux

  Compassion, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those market-driven criminogenc regimes of power that now run the commanding institutions of society, with particular emphasis on how they have transformed the welfare state into a warfare state.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Memories, Intellectual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Different, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Boys

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, People, Selfless

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• I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Organization, Giving

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.

  Tom Gjelten

  Welfare Programs, Health Education, Around The World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Different, Today

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• In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Insecure, Korea, Years

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• All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

  Noam Chomsky

  Slavery, Association, Form

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

  Paul Ryan

  Skills, People, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, School, People

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• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Character, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Father, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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