- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic Needs Quotes
What society owes its most vulnerable members.
Several quotes here treat meeting basic needs as a shared civic duty, from Social Security's role in supporting retirees to a state's moral obligation toward children, seniors, and people with disabilities. It's a serious counterpart to our Behind quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020