J. D. Vance Quotes

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.

There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

The left has lost the common touch.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

There are still some black youth growing up in ghettoes in this country who will never know a white person—not even speak to one.

In community people remain essentially united in spite of all separating factors, while in society they are essentially separated in spite of all uniting factors.

America’s real majority is suffering a minority complex of neglect. They have become the real foes of Negro rights, foreign aid, etc, because … they feel forgotten, at the second table behind the tightly organized smaller groups at either end of the U. S. spectrum.

Politicians have forced us into parallel societies by denying for so long that we existed and pretending for so long that we were going home.

Religious-based and ethnic-based schools act as points of division in society, often breeding prejudice and fear …

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

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

There is an unwillingness on the part of our people for you free colored people to remain with us. Whether it is right or wrong I do not propose to discuss, but to propose it as a fact with which we have to deal. It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated.

Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

If we could create higher education from scratch, would we have organizations that divide people by race, class and gender at institutions that are supposed to be encouraging diversity? No!

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.