Quotes About Poverty

Even the rising number of poor whites being swept into prison by corporate dispossession and profiteering today are often "blackened," in the sense of being marked in the eyes of the larger society as "transgressive" and in some of the ways often meted out to persons of color. In

White youth also often receive extensive assistance as well as tolerance when they develop drug problems. In contrast, blacks, Latinos/as, and Arab- and Southeast Asian-Americans among the stigmatized poor are without such counseling services and often simply hustled off to jail. It

It is cynical, often hypocritical, and self-defeating to declare all drug offenders violent and then withdraw from them, especially from the poor among them, the resources needed to redress the problems that create drug use.

In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.

By the 1990s the UK was the most unequal society in the Western world, with around fourteen million living in poverty, including over four million children, but other west European countries were heading in the same direction.

But a broader—more scriptural—view of worship is about serving the poor, righting injustice, caring for those in need. When teenagers—whether they're already followers of Jesus or not—experience this kind of worship-in-action, they have an enormous opportunity to have a tangible experience of God in their lives.

wrote what is considered by radical activists a seminal essay in the far-left Nation, entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," focused on race and poverty. They bluntly stated their intention: "It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations,

The prevailing mood was one of sullen desperation; poverty fluttered along behind us like a rag caught in the carriage door.

voluntary poverty had a long history in nearly all world cultures—from Buddha to Jesus to Mohammed to Saint Francis—yet was generally practiced only by monastics, who combine vows of poverty with vows of celibacy.

In capitalist economies that require continuous increase in consumption, voluntary poverty constitutes a threat to power. What keeps the gears spinning is income that is both taxable and disposable.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.