Quotes About Poverty

Hell, it took only your first day in a Montana flop or standing over your mother's unmarked grave to know that equal was the one thing all men were not. A few lived like kings, and the rest hugged the dirt until it cracked open and took them home.

He flushed with sadness, as if every moment of his life were occurring all at once—his sister dying in childbirth, his mother squirming in that one-room flop, poor Danny sliding between wet logs, Gig in jail, and Jules dead—and how many more? All people, except this rich cream, living and scraping and fighting and dying, and for what, nothing, the cold millions with no chance in this world.

Listen," Richard says, "unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about here is irreversible, fatal. You have fiscal Ebola, Matt. You are bleeding out through your nose and your mouth and your eye sockets, from your financial asshole." See! Fiscal Ebola? My financial asshole is bleeding? This was exactly why I started poetfolio.com; there are money poets everywhere.

All people, except this rich cream, living and scraping and fighting and dying, and for what, nothing, the cold millions with no chance in this world.

the collapse of the housing market as it relates to an increase in suburban poverty." So there.

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

Poverty is the mother of invention