The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in th…

- Frances Fox Piven

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

- Frances Fox Piven

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

- Frances Fox Piven

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

- Frances Fox Piven

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in wh…

- Frances Fox Piven

I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so …

- Frances Fox Piven

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether anot…

- Frances Fox Piven

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

- Frances Fox Piven

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

- Frances Fox Piven