"It was the difference between starvin' to death in the slums, and bein' considered a person and talked to by name. Even if it was just by them."

He shrugged. "Yeah. It's different. Means somethin' that you don't even wanna try to understand. Trust me on that. But they gave me the sky, Rikku. The Turks did that. Tseng and Verdot and the rest of 'em. Not ShinRa. Turks."