Quotes & Sayings About Unwed Mothers

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. — Toni Morrison

Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing. — Bernard Cornwell

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor. — Al Capp

The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast ... The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts. — Joe Conason

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven

[The Republicans] offer ... a detailed agenda for national renewal ... [On] reducing illegitimacy ... the state will use ... funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling. — Newt Gingrich