Madeline Pendleton Quotes

“The same standardized tests that ranked me in the top 0.01 percent
of all academic performers had been created from a system originally
developed by the eugenicist Carl Brigham to help separate test-takers by
race and economic background. I was smart enough to know that school
didn’t measure intelligence; it just measured how good you were at school.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

“The American Dream tells us that we can change our economic reality if only we work hard enough, but time and time again, we see that class mobility is a myth.”
― Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money