Jonathan Davis Quotes

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Complaint is poverty.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Headlines pass; breadlines continue.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.