Hubert Humphrey Quotes

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

There's nothing more unfair than a guy that doesn't have a job.

Civil rights are meaningless without economic rights.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

Once again the hopes of people of two nations are being smashed by weapons in the name of eliminating weapons. Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction.