Quotes From "The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto" By Cornel West

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle Cornel West

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn. To so quickly slide from the great middle into the underworld of the poor validated our suspicions that perhaps these citizens never really were bona fide, middle class Americans. Indeed, some economists assert that the middle class evaporated decades ago. Cornel West