Underprivileged Quotes

• The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Political, Campaigns

  "Mencken Chrestomathy".

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• Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

  Phyllis McGinley

  People, Sick, Immature

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• I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Opportunity, Voice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Writing, School

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Power, Viewpoints, Value Systems

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• People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

  Phyllis McGinley

  People, Sick, Immature

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Men, Today

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• After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Dark, People

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• Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

  Darrell Issa

  Greatness, Class, Creating

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The Situation Room" with Jim Acosta, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Differences, People, One Day

  Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

  Criss Angel

  Believe, Organization, Foundation

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• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Lawyer, Social, Parasites

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• I grew up in an underprivileged home.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Home, Grew, Grew Up

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• Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Mean, Home

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• Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

  Neil Kinnock

  Inspirational, Compassion, Sick

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• When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I look forward for your support in this noble cause

  Imran Khan

  Uplifting, College, Support

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• One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Honesty, Successful, Compassion

  "The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R". Book by Richard Hofstadter, Chapter VI, part II, p. 245, 1955.

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• My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

  Tim Tebow

  Passion, Kids, Orphan

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• Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.

  Ray Toro

  Art, Believe, Mean

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Selfish, Nice, Women

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press

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