Lori Lightfoot Quotes

If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

Chicago ain’t ready for reform!

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

We have ... to convince the people of America's cities that government is on their side.

Voting rights and free speech are of little value to those with neither the education nor economic clout to make them meaningful.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

The upwardly mobile American is becoming a statistical oddity..

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

By the 1980s divorce declined among the more educated portions of the populace, while rates among the less educated continued to rise… the more educated and more well-to-do were more likely to wed. Given the family role as an incubator of human capital, such trends have had important spillover effects on inequality.

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

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

If not for food stamps, Medicaid, and various job programs, I would never have gone on to be the first in my family to go to college, the first black woman to represent my ward on the Cleveland City Council, and, ultimately, a State Senator.

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.

I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man.

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.

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.

I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

I hope that the new leader, whoever they are - and I hope that it will be Hillary - will bring our country back to participation by all groups and will talk about how technology will enable not just 10% of our population, but all of our population.