Wendy Kopp Quotes

World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

… the submerged tenth

Poverty is sexist.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

We've lost our way if we turn our backs on millions of Americans in need.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.