Poor People's Movements Quotes

“For a protest movement to arise out of traumas of daily life, the social arrangements that are ordinarily perceived as just and immutable must come to seem both unjust and mutable.”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

“What some call superstructure, and what others call culture,”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

“Briefly stated, the main argument of this chapter is that protest is also not a matter of free choice; it is not freely available to all groups at all times, and much of the time it is not available to lower-class groups at all.”
― Frances Fox Piven, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail