Ellen Wilkinson Quotes

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

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

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

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.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth—by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.