James F. Byrnes Quotes

Poverty affects people of all races.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

Money can't buy poverty.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Inequality is on the rise.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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.

People without money are slaves.

How fared the Irish artisan—how fared the Irish peasant? Where one pined, as he yet pines, in your beggared cities, the other starves, upon your fruitful soil.