Charles Barkley Quotes

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

Poverty is sexist.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

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.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.