John Agyekum Kufuor Quotes

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

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

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

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

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

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

God has always been hard on the poor.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

… the unhappy Peasant cannot survive in his humble shelter; today pigswill is his only nourishment; what was once lavished on swine is now shared between man and beast. The People ask only for bread; they are even willing to pay for it with the sweat of their brows: at least let them eat it without watering it with tears.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

In Cameroon, kids have many problems. They think everything is lost before they are born. It seems like they are not allowed to dream. They are not allowed to be ambitious. They just accept being the victim of their life.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.