John Adams Quotes

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

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

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

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

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.