Henry Edward Manning Quotes

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

A hungry man is not a free man.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

This is the land of freedom. The press is at liberty. Every man has a right to express his opinion. Many thinks, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. He hath formed and fashioned you in his own glorious image, and hath bestowed upon you reason and strong powers of intellect. He hath made you to have dominion over the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea. He hath crowned you with glory and honor; hath made you but a little lower than the angels; and, according to the Constitution of these United States, he hath made all men free and equal …. It is not the color of the skin that makes the man, but it is the principles formed within the soul.

Corne, which is the staffe of life

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

This is not a question of expediency, but of right. In antebellum days the proposition was not, “Are the blacks good enough to be free?” but, “Have they the right?” So today the question is not, “Will outrages result from freeing humanity?” but, “Has it the right to life, the means of life, the opportunities of happiness?”

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.