Quotes about Disadvantage

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich.

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.