Quotes About Poverty

I have got immense love from the poor people. What more do I need? I don't think of death and ailment. Life is in the hands of God.

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

The mistake that all 'long-term poor people' make is putting others under a microscope in an attempt to set blame. That right there is a true loser's mentality (or 'poppycock' if you will).

I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

Poor people can't cut their emissions - they don't make them.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people in forms that they can best use. Dollars are laundered through healthcare benefits that people may not need. It also means propping up a lot of healthcare interests rather than individual Americans.

Any industry where there's a lot of money to be made and there are poor people involved, there's going to be some exploitation on some level.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.