Education Quote by J.D. Vance

“consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson called The Truly…

— J.D. Vance

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

“I consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson called The…

— J.D. Vance

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.”

— Bodhidharma

“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.”

— Alex Lamb

“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell”

— Pierre Bourdieu

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional…

— Bayard Rustin

“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live…

— Matthew Desmond

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

“In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.”

— Antony G. Hopkins

“The rich are taught to disregard the poor, while the poor are taught to disregard their true interests. No amount of self-reflection or psychotherapy…

— Yuval Noah Harari