Jose Maria Morelos Quotes

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

I don't see the minimum wage as a fight between capital and labor, between persistent small businesses and diligent employees. I think offering New Mexicans a pathway out of poverty helps all of us, no matter which side of the check you sign.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

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.

If you work, you should not be poor.

In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program is a world class education.

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

Let’s make the poor richer.

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

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

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.