Hanoi Hannah Quotes

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Outside the pale of society, language is just as useless as an eye in darkness

We have allowed tolerance of diversity to harden into the effective isolation of communities.

When you've been told in ways large and small your whole life that your voice doesn't matter and that you don't count, it's not an easy thing to get over.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

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.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

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.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

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.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

Crime is a tax on the poor

Nobody calls on black women to find out what they're thinking about because we're always part of somebody else's agenda.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Voting rights and free speech are of little value to those with neither the education nor economic clout to make them meaningful.