Cruttenden Partners Quotes & Sayings

Sharecropping is the dirty little secret at the root of America's wealth - along with slavery itself. The immense profits generated by the industrious yet impoverished Black "sharecroppers" and "tenant farmers" financed Europe's and America's Industrial Revolution, including the building of their railroads, factories, mills, and their entire infrastructure. It is truthfully asserted that the major cities of America and the Western world were "built with bricks of cotton." Today the debt traps designed to ensnare the working poor and middle class in a lifelong cycle of debt - the high-cost installment loans that charge usurious interest rates of 100% or more, the "payday" loans that charge 400% interest, the extortionate credit card multi-charges, the subprime mortgages with ballooning interest rates, and the home equity loan swindles - are the bastard children of the sharecropping American South. It — Reclamation Project

Start with the important task first: Start the most important task first, as this will make you relaxed and avoid anxiety to jump into multitasking. — Dorothy Enderson

Through silence only the good messages go unheard. — Brian Patten

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something. — Mike Quigley