Quotes About Poverty

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.