Alissa Quart Quotes

Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Class still matters in Britain today.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.