John Layfield Quotes

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Why aren’t Black people this outraged over Black-on-Black killings?.

The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Inequality is on the rise.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

It has been the purpose of the ruling class, apparently, to build new barriers between themselves and the common people, rather than tear away any of those already existing. I think no one can understand the actual condition of the mass of whites in Georgia and the Carolinas, except by some daily contact with them. The injustice done to three fourths of them was hardly less than that done to all the blacks.... Nine of every ten white men in South Carolina had almost as little to do with even State affairs as the negroes had.

There is despair, Mr President, in the faces of those you do not see; in the places that you do not visit.

We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police.