Warren Farrell Quotes

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

I have watched as the Government stepped up the process of dismantling the State, throwing thousands of people onto the scrapheap, abolishing job creation and training programs.... I watched them maniacally cutting back programs ranging from industry R&D to family planning to dental hospital services for the poor. I watched this Government create a crisis of confidence in the higher education sector and attack our public school system.

In our tribal areas the literacy rate among women is 3%; among men, 17%; and there is no economy.

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

Kids who are the victims of broken families are more likely to end up in poverty, rehab, or jail. I'm a Republican, but I respect President Obama for setting the right example and addressing this problem.

I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health services, water, electricity, public transport and safety of women are my top priority.

My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all - specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community - great schools, public safety, etc.

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

The problem is not that the U.S. economy won't be able to take care of its citizens - it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

Women haven't stood together enough because women have been pitted against one another.