Jan Schakowsky Quotes

I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.

When you contribute to food banks or give money that goes to having meals delivered, you're meeting the most basic need. It's such a direct way to help.

I want to make sure that nobody's dying on the streets when I'm president.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

If it’s liberal to feed the hungry and house the homeless, you can call me a liberal. If it’s liberal to make sure a young mother can see a doctor when her baby’s sick, call me a liberal.

Tammany Hall had taught me to be kind to those in trouble, to look after the sick in the tenements, to see that the widows had food and fuel and that the men had jobs.

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs.

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

Look, there are people hurting in this country. We have to find solutions to make their lives better, right?

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

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.