William Penn Quotes

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

Poverty is slavery.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

A machine as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement of human nature itself as ever proceeded from the ingenuity of man.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.