14 Quotes by Abdul El-Sayed

[T]he insecurity of the affluent in an unequal society, driven to acquire to protect their affluence, to guard their position lest they drop in class and join the marginalized.

Segregation changes the character of a neighborhood. As wealth leaves, poverty concentrates in a community, reshaping its businesses, lowering the quality of its schools, and devaluing its homes—the most criticial wealth assets of low-income homeowners.

[M]ost bureaucracies are self-oriented: too often they ask how a new program or service would best be organized within the bureacracy rather than how best to organize it around the people we want to serve.

As the economy accelerates inequality, our government becomes ever more critical as a tool for empowering those losing out. And yet we find that, because of the porous barrier between our economy and our politics, politics only furthers that inequality; the slow, piecemeal corruption of our politics contributes to our insecurity.

If we mistakenly assume that identity stands in for the system of power that elevates certain kinds of people, our analysis risks vilifying and demonizing the wrong people.