Yogi Adityanath Quotes

I wanted to fulfil the unfinished agenda of my father, which was to solve the problems of farmers, daily wage workers, and downtrodden people, irrespective of their caste and religion.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

A change of mentality is needed, no longer seeing the poor as a burden, or as intruders trying to profit from others, but as people seeking to share the goods of the world so that we can create a just and prosperous world for all.

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

I have repeated ad nauseam my party's issues, which range from improving the lot of the poor to women's issues.

There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

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