Nuseir Yassin Quotes

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

It has become impossible to deny or obscure the great chasm . . . between an elite that seizes modernity’s choicest fruits while disdaining older truths and uprooted masses, who, on finding themselves cheated of the same fruits, recoil into cultural supremacism, populism and rancorous brutality.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

All the legislation in the world cannot fix what is wrong with America.

We are in a bad way. That herd of wild asses' colts [see Job 11:12], braying and kicking up their heels, is an unsatisfactory result of a hundred years of Democracy.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

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

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.

We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are also prevalent in the white working class. Political extremism and disengagement is mirrored between white and ethnic minority communities.

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

There are issues in this country that a lot of people feel strongly about.