Frances Fox Piven Quotes

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

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

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

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

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