Thomas Pogge Quotes

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

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

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

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.