Quotes About Poverty

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.

We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and getting a medal would be something.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.