Rachel Brosnahan Quotes

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

I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health services, water, electricity, public transport and safety of women are my top priority.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

It's hard for people who have never faced hunger or illiteracy to understand how crucial they are to the majority of mankind.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

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

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

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.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.