Quotes About Poverty

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Money can't buy poverty.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.