Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

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.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

The high price, therefore, which is so much complained of by the poor, has essentially mitigated their distress by bringing down to their level two or three millions more, and making them almost equal sharers in the pressure of the scarcity.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White society created it; white institutions maintain it; and white society condones it.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

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.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I just hated poverty.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

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.'

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.