Deprivation Quotes

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

The economic deprivation, racial isolation, inadequate housing, and general despair of thousands of Negroes teaming in Northern and Western ghettoes are the ready seeds which gave birth to tragic expressions of violence.

To this day the white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color.

The average Negro is born into want and deprivation. His struggle to escape his circumstances is hindered by color discrimination. He is deprived of normal education and normal social and economic opportunities.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.