William Nicholson Quotes

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

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

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

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.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

Poor men's words have little weight.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Poverty is sexist.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.