Quotes About Poverty

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

If someone is poor in India, they should be able to watch the same films as rich people.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.

People think I'm rich and I'm making all this money off these rocket launches. Hell I'm on Medicaid!

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican... there are not a lot of rich people there.

I'm from poverty, I'm never satisfied with anything I do.

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to take notice that millions of people can't afford a single sick day.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.

people who start out with money in their pockets will choose the gamble, while people who start out with empty pockets will reject the gamble.