Anti-Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 701-703

America now has more than four unemployed people for each opening.
Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
New York Times
Published: August 27, 2011

“We did everything we were supposed to,” said Stephanie Morales, 23, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2009 with hopes of working in the arts. Instead she ended up waiting tables at a Chart House restaurant in Weehawken, N.J., earning $2.17 an hour plus tips, to pay off her student loans. “What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there?” said Ms. Morales, who is now a paralegal and plans on attending law school.

Some of Ms. Morales’s classmates have found themselves on welfare. “You don’t expect someone who just spent four years in Ivy League schools to be on food stamps,” said Ms. Morales….

Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
New York Times
Published: August 31, 2011

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman