Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

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.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.