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Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.

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

Capitalist, Dog, Explaining, Father, Remember, System

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

Blacks, Code, Mother, Politics, Poverty, Welfare

I believe that the only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.

Believe, Latent, People, Thinking, True

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

Important, Power, Question, Thinking, Ultimately, World

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

Become, Becoming, Person, Reading, Trouble

I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so influential. If the trends of the last thirty or forty years are not halted and reversed - and those trends include increasingly inequality, a crumbling public life, a disintegrating public infrastructure, an exhausted ecology, and a huge war arsenal, and more and more war making - then I'm rather gloomy about the prospects for the American future and the harm that the United States could do to the world.

Political, Prospects, States, Thinking, War, World

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

Based, Cooperation, Groups, Kind, Life, People

The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.

Change, People, Play, Power, Thinking, Way

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

Certain, Mind, Moment, Moments, Right, Thinking

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

Believe, Bottom, Equality, Struggle

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