Ralph Adams Cram Quotes

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

You cannot create by decrees conditions which are alien to the very character of the existing economic relations.

A rising tide lifts all boats but if you can’t afford a boat, the tide goes up your nose.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

The economic system ian'r ao muxh fundamentally rigged as the populists contend, as it is fundamentally unalterably, never-to-be-the-same-again changed.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

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

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

We cannot but resent, that forty thousand people should be impoverished to enrich little more than forty merchants.

A radical shift in policy brings almost as many injustices in its train as does the continuance of a policy that has outlived its usefulness.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is -- the enormous prosperity of Fools