Sal Albanese Quotes

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

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.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

Poverty was not caused by the churches; so how can the churches solve the poverty problem?

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

Almost one-fourth of our children are living in poverty. No other western industrialized nation has anything close to that figure. This is not an act of God. There is no divine intervention that says children in America have to live in poverty more than children in Italy, or Denmark, or Great Britain, or Canada, or other western industrialized nations. It a result of flawed policy. It is a result of policy that panders to those who make campaign contributions rather than to needs

The question, therefore, is how is it possible to solve the problem of Muslim poverty?

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