Pramila Jayapal Quotes

The men have long been unpaid and need relief.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I am not given to Political Economy, but I can use my eyes. I have never seen the masters (mill owners) getting thin and haggard for want of food

You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

We’ve convinced ourselves that poverty is a tolerable thing. The basic problem is the sense of resignation about poverty in our society.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns who can't even afford the rent in their cities anymore because costs are going so high.

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

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

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.