Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

We should remember the poor.

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.

We are tired of a welfare system which dehumanizes us and dispenses payments under procedures that are often ugly and paternalistic.

We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

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

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

I care about the children of Detroit.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

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

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

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.

We've got to take care of the poor.

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

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.