Neil Gaiman Quotes

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

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

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.

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

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

There must be one, indeed, who is the last and lowest of the human species.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

The poor white Virginians are the shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of anti-Social whites of the South,

Viciousness and prejudice flow from economic dislocation, and in turn feed it.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are also prevalent in the white working class. Political extremism and disengagement is mirrored between white and ethnic minority communities.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.