It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.
Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.
The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.
In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn't afford that so you have to pay a viewing centre to watch that.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.
