Quotes About Poverty

In America no one should go hungry.

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

For homeless and formerly homeless people, losing their ID and then having to apply for and afford new ID is insurmountably difficult.

Ideology never put food on my table.

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

Improving food security is critical in ensuring that higher education opportunities remain accessible for all.

There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It's a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be responding to poor folks of color and a consensus in support of basic human rights for all. But it is going to take some work.

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

If the world wants a climate deal and new development agenda that's good for the economy, for the poor, and for businesses, the path forward needs to include forests.

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

Working class people and lower income people we have to help more.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.