William Julius Wilson Quotes
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'