Luis Alberto Moreno Quotes

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

This is the great moral issue of our day. 37 million people who live in poverty. It’s wrong.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

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

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Poverty is unnecessary.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty affects people of all races.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.