Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

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

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.

Inequality is on the rise.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.