Ted Kennedy Quotes

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

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

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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.

Let’s make the poor richer.

Prohibiting Poverty

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.