Meriwether Lewis Quotes

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.

How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seven at least are Poor, Endebted Discontented and Armed.

Poverty demoralizes.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

A thousand emigrants per day still leaving from our Irish ports, most of them with money. The runaway farmers have learned the trick of thrashing out their corn by night, leaving the straw neatly cocked, selling off stock and furniture and bolting, with heavy arrears due to the ruined landlords.

Poverty causes crime.

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law.

Heavy rents which are become so great a burden to us that we are not scarcely able to bear. Between landlord and rectors, the very marrow is screwed out of our bones ….They have reduced us to such a deplorable state by such grievous oppressions that the poor is turned black in the face … and they are rendered incapable to support their starving families … that they have not even food, nor raiment to secure them from the extremes of weather.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.