Blase J. Cupich Quotes

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.