Quotes
William J. Wilson
The problems we see today are going to be a hell of a lot worse in 10 years if we're not willing to face up to them.
William J. Wilson
The black kids are more likely to live in segregated neighborhoods. They're influenced by styles and habits and patterns of behavior that have racial restrictions that are also not conducive to learning.
William J. Wilson
The basic thesis of The Bridge Over the Racial Divide is that there is a growing inequality in American society, and ordinary families are, in effect, getting the short end of it.
William J. Wilson
The basic difference between the period after 1973 and the previous period is that the nation's equalizing institutions - unions, public education, the welfare state broadly defined - were much weaker in the present period.
William J. Wilson
That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
William J. Wilson
So, children growing up in these poor, female-headed families are at a disadvantage, and there's research that shows that poor, female-headed families are much more likely to have kids who don't reach the level of achievement in terms of social outcome that we associate with children in married couple families.
William J. Wilson
So there's an interaction there between social, structural and cultural. And if you want to fully capture the environment, you have to show how these things interact.
William J. Wilson
So I see my research focusing on international problems of social and racial equality. And I think it will help inform a lot of the positions I take regarding domestic strategy issues.
William J. Wilson
Single-parent families, family break-ups in the black community are problematic because of the impact on children, and that's the main thing. Single-parent families, female-headed families are overwhelmingly impoverished families.
William J. Wilson
People talk about how busing exacerbated race relations without addressing the problems of black education.