Quotes About Social distress

I do not know which is the more nefarious: to ignore social distress, as do the majority of those who have been favoured by fortune and those who have risen in the social scale through their own routine labour, or the equally supercilious and often tactless but always genteel condescension displayed by people who make a fad of being charitable and who plume themselves on 'sympathising with the people.

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Friends' from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.

The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been losing ground and an economic elite that refuses to recognize or respond to the majority's growing distress.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Nada hay entre estos petimetres sublevados que denote el dolor social, ni la ambición justa y racional, ni la convicción política, ni los ideales de un futuro».