John Perkins Quote

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowing in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed.

John Perkins

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowing in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed.

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John Perkins (Australian politician) (1878–1954), Australian politician
John Perkins (author) (born 1945), American author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins (rugby union) (born 1954), Wales international rugby union player
John Perkins Jr. (1819–1885), American politician, son of John Perkins Sr.
John Perkins Sr. (1781–1866), American judge and planter
John Perkins (physician) (1698–1781), American physician and essayist
John M. Perkins (born 1930), American civil rights activist, American Christian minister, author
Johnny Perkins (1953–2007), American football receiver with the New York Giants
John Perkins (Royal Navy officer) (fl. 1775–1812), Captain, Napoleonic War
John Alanson Perkins (1914–1982), American academic administrator and government official
John Frederick Perkins (1910–1983), English entomologist
John Perkins (academic) (born 1950), British academic, engineering scientist and government adviser
John Astin Perkins (1907–1999), interior designer and architect
John Perkins (cricketer) (1837–1901), English cricketer