Asha Rangappa Quotes

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.

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.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

I never thought of being disadvantaged.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

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

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.