Harry Heinz Schwarz Quotes

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty demoralizes.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Poor people always lose in struggles.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

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.'

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.