Glenn Loury Quotes

What I was wrong about was not realizing that in my saying those things in the way I said them had political consequences... It wasn't just a matter about being right. Being right about something isn't good enough. You also have to be smart about it.

- Glenn Loury

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I got my life back together and I haven't looked back. - Glenn Loury

The graduate course will be going through the theories of inequality, inequalities of all kinds - why some countries are slower to grow than others, why some regions within countries are left behind, why some groups, whether racial, ethnic or whatever (are left behind). - Glenn Loury

(The course) is about race and American society... What I want to do is bring all these issues that this Hurricane Katrina debate has brought forward - I want to bring them out. I want to talk about affirmative action, crime and punishment, schools and the test score cap, urban politics and the history of the civil rights movement, and try to bring all these different elements together in a contemporary course. - Glenn Loury