Quotes About Poverty

Jon can barely afford enough drink to forget how poor he is, and

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Mein Herz ist voller Dankbarkeit, aber meine Armut an deutschen Worten zwingt mich zu großer Sparsamkeit des Ausdruckes.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.