Kyle Carpenter Quotes

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

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

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my children for the label 'disadvantaged.'

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

I do think there are some big questions here about approach, about how people are treated. I was brought up in very challenging areas.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

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

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.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

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