Sioux Indian Tribe Quotes

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

God has always been hard on the poor.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.

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.

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?