Adam Conover Quotes

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

If you're the person whose problems were solved when you were born, your job is to try and help the people who aren't in that situation. It's very easy to say you're tired of political discussion when all of your problems are solved. I keep trying to think of it that way.

I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.

We have that responsibility to look out for those who haven't had the road and the success that we have.

I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

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

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.