Jean-Paul Marat Quotes

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

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

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

We're coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more We leave our homes and firesides with bleeding hearts and sore Since poverty has been our crime, we bow to thy decree; We are the poor and have no wealth to purchase liberty.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

There was no pity take of the poor people, who wrought never no manner of treason, yet they bought it dearer than the great personages, such as had done the evil and trespass

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

No religion on earth preaches the dignity of humanity in such a lofty strain as Hinduism, and no religion on earth treads upon the necks of the poor and the low in such a fashion as Hinduism.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor. Outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure. It's a blessing to wash your face in the summer solstice rain. It's outrageous a man like me stand here and complain. But I'm tired.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

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

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.