N. T. Wright Quotes

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

A culture that generates more backwardness with every generation.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

What we were all always saying with 'The Wire' was that there's a whole group of people that America just sort of wants to throw away. They want to forget about them, and if they could, they'd get rid of them. They are Americans - they're worth saving; they're worth helping.

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

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

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.