Harper Lee Quotes

Our poor children are suffering every day for want of necessities of life…All this is for the love of strong drink.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

A river of grog is killing people and destroying our communities. Spiritually, socially, psychologically, there is a total breakdown in families where people are drunk most of the time -- the children are not safe.

Wherever, in my work, I found Government relief works, within a stone's throw of every pay office a whisky shop started into operation.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

This statement of fact is an eloquent comment on the apathy with which many people regard the mental and physical health of the rising generation…A woman will lavish love and care, and attention on her pet cat or ‘prize’ poodle, and yet draw her skirts aside from the starving children in the gutter. The mew of the cat and the howl of the dog, to say nothing of the squeal of the ‘tortured rabbit’- that figment of anti-vivisectionist imagination- are far more potent to loosen the purse-strings of the sentimentalists than the wail of children.

What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God; for without justice, there is no God.