Quotes About The Oppression Of The Poor

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

Pat Robertson

#2. I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

Mukhtar Ma'i

#3. The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

#4. When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

John Connolly

#5. Harvie Conn, who related this story in one of his books, added that gospel preaching that targets some sins but not the sins of oppression cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority of people in the world, poor peasants and workers.

Timothy Keller

#6. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Thomas Paine

#7. Oppression makes a poor country.

William Penn

#8. When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

Auliq Ice

#9. In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

Harry Belafonte

#10. The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

#11. Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.

James H. Cone

#12. Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Juvenal

#13. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

Pope Francis

#14. Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.

Lysander Spooner

#15. Niggerization is the result of oppression
and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Florynce Kennedy

#16. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Pope Francis

#17. If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

King Solomon

#18. If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Emily Bronte

#19. Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Thomas Paine

#20. A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Andrea Dworkin

#21. God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all - no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Ronald J. Sider

#22. I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.

John Kirwan