Gordon Parks Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, Choices, Cameras

• I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Children, Thinking

• The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

  Gordon Parks

  Powerful, Racism, Cameras

• I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

  Gordon Parks

  Children, Memories, Confusion

• I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Fighting, Racism, Evil

• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Knives

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