"I have seen, the desperation and disorder..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.
More by Barack Obama
“I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.”
“A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.”
“I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"”
More on Poverty
“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
“For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.”
“The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.”
More on Children
“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”
“This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.”
“I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.”