Mike Nesbitt Quotes

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Upon the state falls directly the ... burden of the demoralization of its citizenry and of the social unrest which attend destitution and the denial of opportunity.

I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of its whole population--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

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

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.