Quotes About Poverty

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Hunger is not debatable.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Hunger never saw bad bread.