Katherine Schwarzenegger Quotes

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

How fared the Irish artisan—how fared the Irish peasant? Where one pined, as he yet pines, in your beggared cities, the other starves, upon your fruitful soil.

Third world kids are dying today to pay off the debt.

When you get off to an African country like Malawi - which is pretty removed from everything and pretty seriously off the grid - and you see the struggle of life that goes on there, it's a completely different thing than what happens here.

I lived in a favela.

When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

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

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.