Social Issue Quotes

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

Although the race problem may seem to lie dormant at times, it continually exists, lives on and on and sometimes rages with all the fury of a jungle beast. It gnaws at the very vitals of our existence, in time it will sap our strength and destroy the greatness of our American way of life unless solved properly and permanently.

The rain does not fall on one roof alone

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is everybody who is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

I refuse to politicize a health issue.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

The people are getting screwed In this country.

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

No one has starved.

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime, It don't prohibit worth a dime, It's filled our land with vice and crime. Nevertheless, we're for it.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Child labor in the industrial system is destructive and vicious, and that the employment of children in industry has to be forbidden. But this does not solve the problem of the child in industrial society.

Pornography is a malady to be diagnosed and an occasion for judgment. It's something one is for or against. And taking sides about pornography is hardly like being against aleatoric music or Pop Art, but quite a bit like being for or against legalized abortion or federal aid to parochial schools.

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

People say it’s a radical proposal. Well, I think to have the current situation is what is radical. No other country has anything like it.