Sherman Alexie Quotes

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I just hated poverty.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

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?

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.