Vulnerable Groups Quotes

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed, and they will answer that the laws were designed as a protection for the poor and weak against the oppression of the rich and powerful. But surely no pretense can be so ridiculous

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

The rights of the minority must be protected and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor.

Protecting children at risk of exploitation will always be a priority, and at the other end, safeguarding an ageing population brings its own challenges.

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

The silver lining of Brexit and Trump is that it has undermined the perception that globalization is an unstoppable force, whether or not we think it is a good thing or a bad thing. There have always been losers and as well as winners in this process, and cultural minorities have been among the most vulnerable losers. Now that sizable numbers of people in the most advanced economies have made their grievances felt in a fashion that is hard to ignore.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their merit; a high financial threshold for the receipt of legal aid in other cases; and a failure to deliver a safety net for vulnerable individuals by the exceptional funding arrangements.

Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more vulnerable populations.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.