Poverty Inequality Quotes

“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy, turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then in 1877 for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it.”
― Shelby Foote

“There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.”
― Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“...if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found ... and [those who rule] strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk ... In hollow voices from Workhouse, Hospital, and jail, this truth is preached from day to day, and has been proclaimed for years.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“As for my own answers to any of this? I have none. I'm far more confused than before I first went. I've had no great epiphanies, no profound realisations, but since returning home I've resigned myself to this one thing: that, putting the economics and politics of it all aside - naive as that may be - what it all boils down to is individuals. It's a simple interaction between just two people: one, a person with opportunities and choices, and who could get a flight out tomorrow should they choose; the other, a person with few options - if any. If nothing else, it's a gesture. An attempt. Food and a tent for Toto. Burns dressing for Jose. A little operating theatre with car batteries and boiled instruments, where Roberto can ply his trade. Free HIV treatment for Elizabeth, who'll never be cured and will always live in a hut anyway, but who'll have a longer, healthier life because of it. And sometimes it's little more than a bed in which to die peacefully, attended to by family and health workers... but hey, that's no small thing in some parts.
My head says it's futile.
My heart knows differently.”
― Damien Brown, Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

“Poqerty is the worst form of violence”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.”
― Q.M. Sidd

“-Biz bilmezdik ki yoksul olduğumuzu. Alttaki Zehra Teyzeler varken, bilmemiz olanaksızdı da.- O, Edirne'nin Köprüleri”
― Füruzan, Parasız Yatılı

“Why show him the world when he’s never going to leave the ghetto?”
“Because,” she would say, “even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish, I’ve done enough.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“There will always be the Greece of the starved and the Greece of the satiated, and there will always be the Greece of the warmth in winter's cold and the Greece of frostbitten horror.
That is why those children, of the poor and the rich can never play together as common Greek-borns.”
― Νίκος Ζαχαριάδης

“I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just mean that there was, for me, a kind of grace and joy in it that I can't quite describe. I'd have loved to give us all enough to live better, but... this was pretty good regardless.”
― Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow

“The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.”
― Q. M. Sidd

“Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?”
― William Carmichael, The Missionary

“He passed the first six houses with sadness rather than distaste. They tried so hard, he thought. The Crescent in Edinburgh had been a row of houses all very much alike, too. But similarity, when it has money behind it, becomes a solid wall of convention, of permanence, even of defiance. Similarity, conceived and born in poverty, becomes an inferiority complex.”
― Helen MacInnes, Friends and Lovers

“It seemed monstrous that people who could only afford cheap houses should find themselves automatically surrounded by ugliness.”
― Helen MacInnes, Friends and Lovers

“Poverty has created a new planet within this planet: A Planet of Misery that all humanity should be ashamed of!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed ‘station’ in life. It’s what keeps the poor downtrodden.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

“The poor cannot fast, because he cannot abstain from the food he cannot afford.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The wilful obliteration has born a left-out generation of unemployed people, underprivileged farmers, persecuted minorities and disheartened low-income families with scars which will never heal.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“A slick BMW 5-Series pulls right by the traffic light. As the car comes to a halt, a bunch of kids, street kids, go to work. One of them, a young boy no more than eight years old kisses the BMW emblem on the hood. The driver, drenched in apathy, doesn’t even look up. Another kid comes by the side, begging the beamer’s owner for some cash. Everybody in Tehran knows that to pay these kids is bringing Slumdog Millionaire’s silver screen to the silver smog city.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Today in my view the most serious problem we face as a nation is the grotesque and growing level of wealth and income inequality. This is a profound moral issue, it is an economic issue, and it is a political issue.”
― Bernie Sanders

“L'immense écarte qui existe entre les très pauvres et les très riches et qui ne cesse de s'accroître. C'est une innovation des XXe et XXIe siècle. Les très pauvres dans le monde d'aujourd'hui gagnent à peine deux dollars par jour. On ne peut pas laisser cet écart se creuser encore. Ce constat seul doit susciter un engagement.”
― Stéphane Hessel, Indignez-vous !