Emily Thornberry Quotes

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed that people who need emergency food handouts are eating cold beans and stewed steak from the tin, or handing it back, because they can't even heat it up?

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.