H. Rap Brown Quotes

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

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

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

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.

Prohibiting Poverty

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

Poverty affects people of all races.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

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

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

If poverty was an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved a long time ago.

Abolish Poverty

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

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