Video: Stacey Abrams, Marc Lamont Hill, and Tonika Johnson on the Vulnerable

Stacey Abrams (Fair Fight Action, Lead from the Outside), Marc Lamont Hill (BET News, Nobody) , and Tonika Johnson (Folded Map Project, R.A.G.E.) weigh in.

"I think poverty is immoral. It is economically-inefficient. It is a stain on our humanity. It is a waste of human capital. It is the cause of most of our social pathologies. And it is solvable. This is a problem that we can solve." — Stacey Abrams

"There's this intersection of race and class that renders Black folk the most vulnerable and it renders the most vulnerable the most disposable, because it's much easier to create structures to contain them and blame them than it is to invest in them and support them." — Marc Lamont Hill

"You see how difficult it is to integrate a room based off your neighborhoods? That's the kind of work that's required to integrate our city. You have to ask people where they live... You have to invite them to your table... I know it seemed confusing, but the process is part of the whole experience. I believe if we can do it tonight in this room, our city can also do it." — Tonika Johnson