“In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of...” — Robert Reich Quote

“In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.”

“Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.”

“In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.”

“Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.”

“Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological liberalism in order to make others comfortable about her blackness.”

“Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.”