John Pilger Quotes

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

There is no peace in poverty

Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign