Quotes About Poverty

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.