Quotes About Poverty

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

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.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not 'broken.' Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.