Sudha Murty Quotes

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

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.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

Poverty in America wears a diaper much more often than it wears a hearing aid. Money desperately needed by poor kids is going to rich elderly.

One of our most unfortunate believes is that a person who lives on welfare is not only unfortunate, but somehow defective.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.

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

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.