Blase J. Cupich Quotes

It's no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities. We have to address that, starting from the government down and the grassroots up.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State legislature.

We insist that educationally and socially we maintain a segregated society …

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

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.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.