A Quote by Ayanna Pressley

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Pressley
American - Politician
Born: February 3, 1974

The policies we debate and enact in Congress have a real impact on people across the country. Climate change, immigration, economic inequality - each of these issues have become hot button, partisan topics, but support or opposition on these pressing issues shouldn't come down to party.

Mike Quigley

In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.

Branko Milanovic

The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like 'systemic racism' and 'structural inequality.'

Shelby Steele

Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

Annamie Paul

I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.

Wunmi Mosaku

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

Pete Buttigieg

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

Stacey Abrams

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Al Sharpton

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.

Erik Spoelstra

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other.

Barack Obama

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Carl Levin

The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

Jon Ronson

Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

Tariq Ramadan

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Stephen Moore

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