Moises Naim 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.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

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

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.

Underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions.

What our country really is, the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering and human hell, a jungle of wild beasts.

Increase of slaves in this colony is injurious to the poor and inconvenient

Will the American People Never Cease to Oppress and Torture the Helpless poor?

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our poor white people . . . are suffered to while away an existence in a state but one step in advance of the Indian of the forest.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

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 walls are the publishers of the poor.