Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program is a world class education.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

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

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

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

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

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

In our tribal areas the literacy rate among women is 3%; among men, 17%; and there is no economy.

The capacity of children to become self-sufficient and successful adults is compromised not only by monetary poverty, but by poverty of experience, influence, and expectation

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organization.

The extreme profligacy, improvidence, and misery which are so prevalent among the laboring classes in many countries are chiefly to be ascribed to the want of education.

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

We know what works. What works are the very opportunities that advantaged families provide for their children.