Unfortunates Quotes
- The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined… — John L. Lewis
- A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be… — Stephen Crane
- Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live… — Russell Lynes
- There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and… — Ernest K. Gann
- It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not… — Tommy Douglas
- The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it… — Francine du Plessix Gray
- There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.… — Aga Khan IV
- Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which… — Alexandre Dumas
- Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. — Alexandre Dumas
- No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from… — Paulo Freire