Quotes About Poverty

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren't slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?