Michael Eric Dyson Quotes About Welfare

Quotes about: Welfare

• I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Father, Believe

• 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

• We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Welfare, Hopefully

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Father, Son

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