Emily Thornberry Quotes

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We should remember the poor.

I was once that kid that needed a donation - that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn't able to pay for it.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Being a mom, I am even more inspired to really help make a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like if my child didn't have a meal to eat.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

Some people don't have a home or a place where they can cook a warm meal, and so we're thankful for the generosity of YG and the 4Hundred Waze Foundation to feed the community in the city of Compton.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Food banks have become such a powerful symbol in part because they're inescapable.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.