Robert Frost Quotes

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

What other single human being has touched and transformed the existence of so many? She walked in the slums and ghettos of the world, not on a tour of inspection, but as one who could not feel contentment when others were hungry

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George W. Bush.... But liberal and conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a liberal, so be it.

We should remember the poor.

Fill the people's bellies and open their hearts.

A change of mentality is needed, no longer seeing the poor as a burden, or as intruders trying to profit from others, but as people seeking to share the goods of the world so that we can create a just and prosperous world for all.

As Justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair Acquisitions of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives every Man a Title to so much out of another’s plenty, as will keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to subsist otherwise.

What I am interested in is to help this grand President of ours feed the hungry and clothe the naked and provide work for the idle of every race and creed

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

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.

If we don't want intrusive government, then we need to care for the least among us so that they are not exploited as a reason by the government for bigger government.

I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.