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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. Todd Gitlin

Government Vote Book World Made Power Everybody State Ought States Focused Some Case Determining Could Policies Because Around Least Governs American Much United United States

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. Todd Gitlin

Everyday Furniture Given Environment Makes Inertia Were Human Appear

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. Todd Gitlin

Think Society About Anyone Strategically Media Thinks

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. Todd Gitlin

Power Immensity Torrent Sort Limited Enables Manage Us Navigation Media

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. Todd Gitlin

Heart Speak Matter Chronic Torrent Absurd Manufacture Media Desire Dissatisfaction

My business is the analytical framework. Todd Gitlin

Business Analytical Framework

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. Todd Gitlin

Experience Misrepresented Sure Frequently Been Often Anyone Quoted

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. Todd Gitlin

Change Marks Demographic Leaves Huge Century

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. Todd Gitlin

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class. William Julius Wilson

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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society. William Julius Wilson

Racism First Half Society Rising Maintain Reached Period Inequality Came Very Close Which Peak

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.' William Julius Wilson

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A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. William Julius Wilson

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar. William Julius Wilson

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Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.' William Julius Wilson

Education Saying Business People Training Personality Job Run Look Effectively Traits Going Just Want Certain Skills Who Businessperson Soft

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Zygmunt Bauman

You Class Horrifying Outside Excluded Concept Really Lower Lower Class Awful

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. Zygmunt Bauman

Silence You Out About Exclusion Talking Equals Stop Belong

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another. Zygmunt Bauman

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. Zygmunt Bauman

Capitalism Own Imagination Way Critics Fact Crucial Economists Well Undertaking Suspect Behind Proceeds Which Derives Including Assets

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. Ulrich Beck

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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. Ulrich Beck

National Benefit Does Loss National Sovereignty Sovereignty Apparent Actually

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. Ulrich Beck

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