Disadvantaged Populations Quotes

Half the people of the world are living on less than $2 a day.

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life. The good news is first announced to them, that God loves them before all others and comes to visit them through the acts of charity that the disciples of Christ carry out in his name.

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

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

NAFTA is a deal made for the elites of America, Mexico and Canada leaving out the average people of all three companies.