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What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

Viciousness and prejudice flow from economic dislocation, and in turn feed it.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

The black community is broken up in general.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

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.'

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

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

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

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.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.