Aaron McGruder Quotes

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

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

Remove poverty from politics.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

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.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

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

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

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

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Families in Logan, West Virginia, were going through the same struggles as families in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Houston. This was not a West Virginia problem. This is an American problem, and it has to change.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.