Susan George Quotes

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

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.

We will continue to move from misery to poverty with dignity.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

… 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?

Everyone should have enough to be able to eat and sustain their families. I'm not saying everyone should become extravagantly rich but everyone should have sufficient food and good education.

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.