Quotes About Poverty

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

I was on the dole.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

If you don't educate, you will incarcerate.

I come from an educated family, but we were poor.

Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to end poverty around the world.

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

100 days employment in a year is not enough for poor.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Debemos enseñar a los curas que amenazan y asustan a sus feligreses con el fuego eterno que en realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.

En realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.