Tom Morello Quotes

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Poverty was not caused by the churches; so how can the churches solve the poverty problem?

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

Some men are more perfect than others.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.