Albert S. Priddy Quotes

Everywhere they are just alike, possess pretty much the same characteristics, the same vernacular, the same boorishness, and the same habits . . . everywhere, Poor White Trash.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

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.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

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.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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.

… the submerged tenth

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

There is a lot of talent and a lot of good things happening and coming from Molenbeek, but unfortunately, it has had to deal with a very, very long time of being ignored, really, and it was very easy, even in the neighbourhood where I grew up, to just fall off the grid, and nobody would notice it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

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 was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.