Degradation Quote by Frederick Douglass

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

— Euripides

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller

Racism is a primary source of evil designed to destroy good men.

— Bryce Courtenay

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool…

— Howard Zinn

Poverty is the root of all evil.

— Sheikh Hasina

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

— Albert Einstein

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

— William James

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

— Susan Sontag

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

— W Clement Stone

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

— Jon Stewart