Tracy Morgan Quotes

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Welfare is killing this country.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

Almost one-fourth of our children are living in poverty. No other western industrialized nation has anything close to that figure. This is not an act of God. There is no divine intervention that says children in America have to live in poverty more than children in Italy, or Denmark, or Great Britain, or Canada, or other western industrialized nations. It a result of flawed policy. It is a result of policy that panders to those who make campaign contributions rather than to needs

New York Times, despite its liberal reputation, has been against the poor people of this earth.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.

We’ve convinced ourselves that poverty is a tolerable thing. The basic problem is the sense of resignation about poverty in our society.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers' money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.

I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.