Garry Trudeau Quotes

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.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

There is despair, Mr President, in the faces of those you do not see; in the places that you do not visit.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. 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.

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.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.