Quotes About Poverty

All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people, they don't have the support they need, they're lost. Schools are supposed to be the thing that levels the playing field.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

It was once upon a time where me, myself as a kid - and I know plenty of people who grew up the same way - couldn't even afford a pair of shoes.

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.

How can we expect students to succeed when they're worried about where they'll sleep, what they'll eat, and how they'll connect to the classroom?

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

I was born in a 10x10 room of a chawl, and we shared a common bathroom with other people in the neighbourhood.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.