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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops,” reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould. A deepening class divide makes social mobility all but impossible. The result is a de facto caste system. This is not only morally wrong but also tremendously wasteful. Denying access to opportunity for large segments of the population means throwing away vast reserves of talent and brainpower. It’s also been shown to dampen economic growth.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It’s a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World Bank, the CIA, and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. What it reveals is startling. Today the United States has the most unequal society of all developed nations. America’s level of inequality is comparable to that of Russia, China, Argentina, and the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“We are nicked and chipped, bruised and battered. Like my grandmother’s glass figurines, we position ourselves to hide our defects. We learn how to move forward.”
― Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
― Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
“Brook’s mother, Taneeta Bacon, spoke frankly to us. “When I left Georgia in 1989, I left looking for something else. But Georgia is everywhere. The same problems are everywhere. There is no promised land.” With that, she walked off. She had framed the march: it was a march about a death, and it was a walk about all that had been taken from Black Americans.”
― Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap – From Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Greenwood Banking and Racial Justice
― Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap – From Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Greenwood Banking and Racial Justice
“I think about the parable of the little girl and the starfish told to me by a grandparent, though I can’t remember which. A young girl walks along a beach on which thousands of starfish have washed up during a terrible storm. She begins picking up the starfish, one by one, and throwing them back into the sea. An old man walks down to the beach and asks the young girl, “Why are you doing this? Look at how many starfish there are. You cannot possibly begin to make a difference.” The girl pays the man no mind and picks up another starfish and throws it back into the waves. Then she says to the old man, “It made a difference to that one.”
― Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
― Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
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