Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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

The poor have neither the income nor political power to hold anyone accountable for meeting their needs- they are political and economic orphans.

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.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

Poverty is unnecessary.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

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

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Life is really hard for some people.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Poverty and immorality are not synonymous.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

Gentlemen, I speak to you for the miners' families... The little children are gathered around a bare table without anything to eat. They are not asking for a $100,000 yacht like yours, Mr.______..." (here, he would gesture with his cigar toward an operator), "...or for a Rolls-Royce limousine like yours, Mr. _____..." (staring at another operator). They are asking only for a slim crust of bread.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.