J. D. Vance Quotes

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Because a lot of people are hurting economically and being shafted by the very wealthy, it's been possible here in the United States of America to organize them and persuade them that to elect a nincompoop like Donald Trump is actually in their best interest. When clearly it isn't.

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.

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

The U. S, Social Security Act not only takes the Afro-American for a ride, but aids immediately in perpetuating his inferior status, What we see here, as in most other 'liberal' legislation, in a further stratifying of the Negro at the bottom of the ladder of life. .

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

You have no understanding of what it is to live in a community surcharged with an idle, dissolute, vicious, ignorant negro population just emerged from slavery.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I am one of them. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining car waiter. You do not seem to understand who I am.

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.