Disadvantaged Quotes

“Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.”
― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker

“I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.”
― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker

“Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN”
― Sunday Adelaja

“{...], reality is painful, so people invent justifications and use them to supplant measurement of reality. We could use the old cliché of an ostrich hiding its head in the sand, but only if there's a television down there, dramatizing the sadness. It is an inversion of art: instead of singing the beautiful, we find praises for the ugly and disguise it as beauty, because we have lost belief in beauty. As good nihilists, we note that this loss of beauty is vested more in belief than in beauty. We have made beauty contingent upon so many moral justifications that it is socially taboo to note beauty without somehow tying it to the plight of the disadvantaged.”
― Brett Stevens, Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity

“Those without a choice in life are often the most innovative.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Culture of Contentment

“Those who have the least are usually the ones who know the most about politics.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As hostility toward government spread in America, there have been determined efforts to cut taxes, particularly for the wealthy, and then "starve the beast"--using reduced revenue to justify cuts in services for the disadvantaged. This is both disingenuous and cruel, as well as out of step with the advanced world.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope