Quotes About Poverty

O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.

But like everyone else I've come to the sad realisation food banks are an all-too-common feature on the streets of Britain.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.

When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.

I'm still hungry. I'm still striving... You have to understand: my mum has worked hard to look after her children, but we have always been poor; we have always been at rock bottom. I want to change my family history forever.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

Some states are doing better than others. Some states naturally have stronger economies. So it's not as simple as saying, 'Let's go to $15.' If you do it wrong, you can hurt the very people you're trying to help.

If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address the issue effectively.