Quotes About Poverty

When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.

Up to 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and, as a result, proper sanitation. This fact leads to anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths every year.

Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are. Ask what would help. And then deliver it.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

We are not rich and my family depended on me.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.