Audrey Hepburn Quotes

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.