Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

The Forgotten Man

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

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

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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.

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

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

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

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.

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

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.