Benjamin Hooks Quotes

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Benjamin Hooks

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• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
  • Truth

• For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • War
  • Government

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Poverty
  • Poor
  • Choose

• Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Poverty
  • Go

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Education
  • Poverty
  • Obstacles

• It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Poverty

• I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Success
  • Growth

• One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Legend
  • Legends

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Improvement
  • Theory
  • Steps

• Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

  

  Nick Park
  • Success
  • Freedom
  • Pressure

• Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Poverty
  • Role Models
  • Hopelessness