Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

The next civil right should be some kind of civil right for livelihood.

Every man has a right to bread.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

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

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.

This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

Today, many human rights take the forms of claims.

As Justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair Acquisitions of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives every Man a Title to so much out of another’s plenty, as will keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to subsist otherwise.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living - a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

The destiny of world civilization depends on providing a decent standard of living for all mankind …. The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

…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.

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

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

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.

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

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.