Herm Edwards Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

I lived in a kind of a middle class home, and I didn't really have a lot of experience with the justice system or prisons or really being aware of that world.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

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

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?