Quotes About Poverty

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I knew who later ended up in prison.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.

My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.