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“Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to…

— Anonymous

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation about the…

— Michelle Alexander

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation…

— Jules Verne

Poverty affects people of all races.

— Bill Bennett

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the…

— Sarah Kendzior

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men…

— Matthew Desmond

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

— Frantz Fanon

“It was clearly the Native American curse on the white man in action. After taking their land and converting everything that was holy and…

— Carl-John X Veraja

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and…

— George Orwell