Quotes About Poverty

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.