Lew Wallace Quotes

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

There is no peace in poverty

Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.