Quotes About Poverty

I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look out for these people and give them a chance.

No one walks into a food bank with their head held high.

At one point, I had 10 UFC fights under my belt. But at the same time, I had no money and no house to live in.

Poverty has become a big problem.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald Trump. I'll go try to be on 'The Apprentice' and be successful.' But 15 years later, I never would imagine that he, as the president of the United States, would call me a low life.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?