Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

We've got to take care of the poor.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

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

Very few governments have the money to meet the needs of their people….The private sector has most of the resources.

We are living in a time when the comforts of life, and all the material wealth needed to bring happiness to every human being, can be produced in abundance. There is no need whatever for one human being to go hungry, homeless or naked. Man’s inventive genius has developed the tool to that point, and guided the natural forces to that degree, that abundance is possible to all.

Latin American countries have lavished money on its armies when they should have been lavishing it on their children.

We happen to be living in an era when, in consequence of human gullibility and fallibility, the world has been overtaken by panic and distress such as private initiative alone cannot cope with. To an extent that could previously never have been expected the cities, the states, and the central government have been compelled to undertake to provide relief where voluntary agencies have been unequal to the task.

Even in the United States, 'you have a sort of welfare state, even if you don't want to admit it -- you don't allow people to die on the street.

[There should be] a legal guarantee of subsistence for all the destitute ... whether deserving or not.

We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.