Quotes About Poverty

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, those 'haves' should share with the 'have nots.' And because there is not much to share anyway, in the end that egalitarianism boils down to the equal distribution of poverty.

Nobody would doubt for one moment that my husband is a rich foreigner - why in the world would I marry a poor one? My marriage also means that I have escaped the common destiny of my people: the war, poverty, insecurity, unemployment, disappointment, political confusion, low wages, and the feeling that time is running out fast and you can't be certain if the future will bring anything better.

And even those who would like to believe in egalitarianism must ask themselves why we have to be equal only in poverty.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty".

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth," Rapone said. "We have one of the most technologically advanced militaries of all time and all we were doing is brutalizing and invading and terrorizing a population that had nothing to do with what the United States claimed was a threat

Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings?' 'I can say it, Father' said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it.' 'I've got it,' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them [ghetto areas] and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.