Hillary Clinton Quotes

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.

I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

From the point of view of the poor, the hungry, the disenfranchised, the wretched of the Earth... there will never be peace until their condition has been alleviated and until their humanity is in full bloom.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

What I am interested in is to help this grand President of ours feed the hungry and clothe the naked and provide work for the idle of every race and creed

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

Government's basic purpose is to allow those blessed with talent to go as far as they can—on their own merits. But ... government also has an obligation to assist those who, for whatever reason, have been left out by fate: the homeless, the infirm, the destitute.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.