Quotes About Poverty

My grandmother's house was a one room shack.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.

Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place, and one of the primary reasons they stay poor. Indeed, we will simply never be able to win the battle against extreme poverty unless we address it.

The Locust Effect then is the surprising story of how a plague of lawless violence is destroying two dreams that the world deeply cherishes: the dream to end global poverty and to secure the most fundamental human rights for the poor.

For the hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people who live outside the protection of the rule of law, they principal reason they suffer abuse is often not the absence of good laws, but the absence of a functioning public justice system to enforce those laws.

Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.

the problem is not the supply of food, but the inequities in the distribution system that rob the poor of the capacity to access the food.

You are probably not regularly being threatened with being enslaved, imprisoned, beaten, raped, or robbed. But if you were among the world's poorest billions, you would be.

Be kind to the poor and treat others fairly, for both acts demonstrate love. — Helene C. Kuoni