we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their lo… - Barbara Ehrenreich
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their lo…
- Barbara Ehrenreich
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals." - Barbara Ehrenreich
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists. - Barbara Ehrenreich
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 … - Barbara Ehrenreich
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 …
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage. - Barbara Ehrenreich
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. - Barbara Ehrenreich
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life. - Barbara Ehrenreich
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire. - Barbara Ehrenreich
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to m… - Barbara Ehrenreich
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to m…
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