Ray Nagin Quotes

There's this huge number of desperate people.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

What in the name of humanity is to become of them—where are they to go?

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

We hate our squalor.

What can he do who lacks the necessary work, if he comes to be unemployed? He has nothing but to let himself die of hunger. Then a few phrases of pity will thrown on his cadaver.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.