Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Hughey, Aaron W. (book reviewer), "Book review: ‘Quiet’ suggests introverts are undervalued by society," The Daily News (Kentucky; BGDailyNews.com), July 15, 2012.
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Hughey, Aaron W. (book reviewer), "Book review: ‘Quiet’ suggests introverts are undervalued by society," The Daily News (Kentucky; BGDailyNews.com), July 15, 2012.
George Jackson (activist) (1941–1971) activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family
Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 9
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Speeches/2009/01/Bill-Gates-Rotary-International "Bill Gates - Rotary International" Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)
Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943) American economist and professor, born 1943.
"Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105, Vanity Fair, May 2011.
“The talent works, the genius creates.”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Attributed to Schumann in: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 112, 1913, p. 811
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, United Nations Address (September 2016)
Context: A world in which one percent of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99 percent will never be stable. I understand that the gaps between rich and poor are not new, but just as the child in a slum today can see the skyscraper nearby, technology now allows any person with a smartphone to see how the most privileged among us live and the contrast between their own lives and others. Expectations rise, then, faster than governments can deliver, and a pervasive sense of injustice undermine people’s faith in the system. [... ] economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor, and growth is broadly based. And that means respecting the rights of workers so they can organize into independent unions and earn a living wage. It means investing in our people -- their skills, their education, their capacity to take an idea and turn it into a business. It means strengthening the safety net that protects our people from hardship and allows them to take more risks -- to look for a new job, or start a new venture.
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003) American author
“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: Diaries
Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States
Ch. 24 http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncomrev24.html <br class="br">A People's History of the United States (1980) <br class="br">Context: One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
