Quotes About Poverty

If that which conspires to silence poor people had hands, shame would be its thumbs.

The slanted light of dawn was rippling through the windowpane, and Miss Anne Sainsbury was huddled beneath her thin blanket, wondering, as she often did, where she would find money for her next meal." That was really good. Even he wanted to know what happened to Miss Sainsbury, and he was making it up.

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out of poverty. It was at that point that I decided to take acting seriously.

Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature.

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

Income inequality isn't sexy.

Inequality is on the rise.

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

Neoliberalism has left Britain's boss classes drunk on triumphalism, paying themselves record salaries and bonuses while their workers are imprisoned by poverty and insecurity. It was never going to last.