James Welch Quotes

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

The poor are the Negroes of Europe.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he less savage than the other savages.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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

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

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

Sometimes people who know our societies hate us worse that those who don’t… People who are our intellectual and educational equals feel humiliation even more so that the … peasant who is used to being downtrodden….

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

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

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.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.