Michelle Yeoh Quotes

Your poverty is my shame.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

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

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

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.

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

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.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

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

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

We've lost our way if we turn our backs on millions of Americans in need.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

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