Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Poverty demoralizes.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

Poverty causes crime.

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

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

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

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

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

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

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.