Sajid Javid Quotes

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

… the submerged tenth

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Social inequality kills. It unduly deprives individuals and communities experiencing social deprivation of their health, increases their burden of disease and disease, and cuts short their lives.

Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. It exposed the soft underbelly of America when it comes to race and class.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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

Our poor white people . . . are suffered to while away an existence in a state but one step in advance of the Indian of the forest.

The Forgotten Man

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

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

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.