Jesse Jackson Quotes

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans

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

It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme poverty and hunger. Humans, we can survive without a lot of luxuries we are lucky to live with. But the thing we need most is healthy food and clean water. Without that we can't survive and we can't thrive.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I left home because I was hungry.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

Only a well fed, well housed, well schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.