Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes

No man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Bread for the Needy, clothing for the naked, and houses for the homeless.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

You have to provide 5 things to the people: Income, Housing, Education, Health Care, and Justice.

… it must be borne in mind that we have in the South a peculiar and unprecedented state of things. It is of the utmost importance that our energy be given to meeting conditions that exist right about us rather than conditions that existed centuries ago or that exist in countries a thousand miles away. What are the cardinal needs among the colored people in the South, most of whom are to be found on the plantations? Roughly, these needs may be stated as food, clothing, shelter, education, proper habits, and a settlement of race relations …

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

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.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

If you give most people the choice between food and the other necessities of life and Freedom of Speech, few will fight for Freedom of Speech.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.