Ken Loach Quotes

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

It is a sin to be poor.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

We need to wake up to idea that you cannot treat sport on equal terms with other parts of the economy.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence.