Quotes About Poverty

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there's a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population; then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Poverty is the root of all evil.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.