Quotes About Poverty

I came from poverty and a tough household where we didn't have enough money to really eat, to where I am now. I know it was God giving me the guidance.

There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.

I grew up poor in East Houston. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not anymore. It's kind of a badge of courage now.

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.