Laura Moser Quotes

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population … set off from the real contribution to solving national issues because of a division of race lines …

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State legislature.

We insist that educationally and socially we maintain a segregated society …

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

If this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-American didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The commission of crime is not randomly or evenly distributed in our society. If you wanted to remove everything correlated with race, you couldn’t use anything.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

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

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.

Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.

Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.

Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

There are two Baltimores. There are clearly two Baltimores.

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

The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.

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.

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.

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.