4 Robert F. Kennedy Quotes on Poverty

Robert F. Kennedy quotes on poverty

12. For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter. This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

36. I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

40. I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

48. It is one thing to assure a man the legal right to eat in a restaurant; it is another thing to assure that he can earn the money to eat there.