Emmanuel Adebayor Quotes

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

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.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

I grew up poor.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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.

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

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

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.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.