Quotes About Poverty

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so we couldn't concentrate.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

Audiences are demanding more movies like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' Poverty in India is a very important issue that we want to highlight.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.