Quotes About Poverty

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Given the relativity concept, poverty cannot be eliminated. Indeed, an economic upturn with a broad improvement in household income does not guarantee a decrease in the size of the poor population, especially when the income growth of households below the poverty line is less promising than the overall.

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

I work with poor kids. I work in the fight against HIV.

I never had holidays when I was a kid, because my parents couldn't afford them.

We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. I went to work in a factory, and worked and saved for months until I had the money to come to England.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.