Mason Cooley Quotes

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

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.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.