“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'” PeopleBigsStreetsBrotherShouting Author:Vinnie Jones
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.” WantEndsFeelingsMotherFightingCausesMy OwnKnowingStreetsBrotherMy BrotherThe End Of The DayStayingLanesBansStay TrueSingle MotherTrue To Myself Author:Trae tha Truth
“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.” YearsBigsCitiesCareersStreetsNew YorkBrotherWallYears AgoNew York CityProfessional Career Author:Gerald Chertavian
“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.” WayLittlesUsedHoursSecretKnownFourStreetsSecurityBrotherWallKeysBearsSkillsSurvivalTwentiesCrisisReputationUsed To BeDirtyFirmExecutivesDay To DayOngoingFundingMarketplaceStanleyGoldman SachsLehman Brothers Author:William D. Cohan
“Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.” MenYoungCommunityWhiteClassStreetsMiddleBrotherRapYoung ManMiddle ClassRapperMisogynyWhite ManGangstersIdentifyingGangster Rap Author:Angela Davis
“Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.” YearsLife IsNextQualityStreetsBrotherOne DayTenYears AgoMysteriousCrucialHomelessNext DayBrothers And SistersMysterious Things Author:Cornel West
“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.” PlayUsedStuffGrowing UpStreetsNew YorkBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherSubway Author:Don Alias
“Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.” PeopleLooksRealBigsAmericaStuffPayAttentionBoysStreetsBrotherMessagesYeahRapPay AttentionFbiHoodComptonReal StuffLapd Author:Eazy-E
“Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that if you don't do what we tell you, the sky will fall. If you don't do what we tell you, it will be the end of capitalism as we know it. The failure of Lehman Brothers lent some credence to those fears.” IfsKnowsSaidWarEndsUsedFallSkyStreetsBrotherWallCapitalismTerrorTacticsWar On TerrorCredenceLehman Brothers Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.” IfsHardDoneAmericaTurnsAirStreetsBrotherWallGolfHeyGiantsCollapseMondayFree MarketTournamentsBankruptcyGolf TournamentsLehman Brothers Author:Amy Poehler
“The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.” IfsMenHalfStreetsBrotherTerroristMy BrotherIranCompensationInjuredTerrorist Attacks Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensRealBitsImagineStreetsRocksMissingPositionBrotherBandLittle BitIncrediblesMy BrotherGangJacketsLeatherRock BandsMissing OutLeather Jackets Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.” NeedsLongLife IsLostHoursLinesWalksHalfStruggleStreetsBrotherDramaMoonPlotConvolutedPlot LinesLost Brother Author:Ricky Gervais
“I am street hip-hop brother. That's my biggest message with that one.” StreetsBrotherMessagesHip HopHipsHops Author:Styles P
“I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.” ThinkingArtMatterKidsSchoolTogetherStreetsBrotherTwinsArt SchoolTwin Brother Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.” SchoolSawsStreetsChildhoodBrotherPlentyMy BrotherAfghanistanCousinOld SchoolNeighbourhoods Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsLawSidesChurchStreetsBrotherCallingRepublicanConflictWorshipDemocratAbortionGlobal WarmingNeighborhoodLunchInitiativeIn-lawsShortageYour BrotherMosquesSynagogueBrother In Law Author:Elizabeth Lesser