Jack Klugman Quotes

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

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

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

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

The state grew fat, but the people grew lean.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

Complaint is poverty.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.