Peter Capaldi Quotes

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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.

I come from garbage.

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.

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

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

The poor have neither the income nor political power to hold anyone accountable for meeting their needs- they are political and economic orphans.

… the submerged tenth

The Forgotten Man

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.

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.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.