Booker T Quotes

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.

The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise to the top in Silicon Valley, those are antithetical to a lot of the principles that the Trump administration apparently stands for.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it—because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.