Richard Henry Tawney Quotes

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

No country now in transition will be able to accommodate demands for either economic security or social justice anytime soon.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

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.

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

We've got to take care of the poor.

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.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

I am profoundly disturbed by any attempt to take government responsibility away from government … it is government’s responsibility to educate all of our children …. The fundamental responsibility for poverty of this country does not belong to the churches; it belongs to the government.

The public welfare is a broad and inclusive concept. The moral, social, economic and physical well-being is one part of it; the political well-being another.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

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.

Just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God’s children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given a chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.