Park Won-soon Quotes

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Prohibiting Poverty

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Anywhere you go, where people are at the bottom, we've all got the same outlook on life and want to strive for more.

We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

It ought to be considered a reward for good citizenship and good parenting to get into public housing.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

Wealth may not necessarily be the decisive element in the progress of women, but it does create the conditions for further emancipation and equality.