Dizzee Rascal Quotes

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

Sometimes people who know our societies hate us worse that those who don’t… People who are our intellectual and educational equals feel humiliation even more so that the … peasant who is used to being downtrodden….

We truly forget how bigoted America was in the 1930's.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

Far less envy in America than in France.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.