Quotes About Poverty

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

We lived in a slum area in the suburbs of Mumbai.

Brazil is a country that has rich people, as you have in New York City, as you have in Berlin or in London. But we also have poor people like in Bangladesh or in African suburbs.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, 'cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I'm saying? It's gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

You can't quit poverty.

How the Other Half Lives

get through the spring, summer, and autumn living paycheck to paycheck, but during the chilly months of winter, the money ran out and I couldn't pay my rent. The unthinkable happened. I became homeless. I'd sleep in my car and try to keep warm by running the heater or wrapping myself in a quilt Aunt Mae had given me. If I had some cash, I'd crash in a pay-by-the-week hotel room.

Yoksul halk?n?n ya?ama sava??na gözlerini kapay?p cami minberinden cennet öyküleri say?klayanlar m? uygarl?k temsilcisi olacaklar?

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Globalization is a strategy of liberalization that becomes an economic nightmare for the poor

Honest poverty lives happily; ill gotten wealth worries.

She was poor, but she was honest, Victim of the squire's whim: First he loved her, then he left her, And she lost her honest name.

The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

But if today's low-income countries are to move from poverty to an incipient affluence... then none of those factors could make a difference without the rising consumption of fuels and electricity: a decoupling of economic growth and energy consumption during early stages of modern economic development would defy the laws of thermodynamics." (p. 350, italics added)

La libertad es un concepto abstracto: ¿la libertad de quién? ¿Es libre un pobre que no tiene lo suficiente para sustentarse a sí mismo y sacar adelante a su familia?

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.