Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

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.

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.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

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

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.

The question is very simple. Shall the common man be pushed back in the mud, or shall he not? That was the real issue of the Spanish war.

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

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

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

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

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 do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.