Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

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

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.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

… the struggling masses

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

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.