Emmanuel Jal Quotes

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

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

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

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

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.