Arun Jaitley Quotes

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'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

My job is to show our humanity, and the only way to be leading with that sort of humanity is to lead with the problems that a family like this might be encountering and putting those on display.

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

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.

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.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

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

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

Your poverty is my shame.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society.

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

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.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

I'm one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There's a reason they got there.