Robin Skelton Quotes

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

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

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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 were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

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