Edwin Markham Quotes

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

We've lost our way if we turn our backs on millions of Americans in need.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

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.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

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.