Quotes About Poverty

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

I come from a poor community, and I still go back there whenever I can, and I think that makes it easier to cope with fame and being on TV.

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

We need to tackle energy poverty.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

We need an education system that prepares people to seize the opportunities of the 21st century - from tackling the inequality that sees the poorest kids arriving at school at a disadvantage from the age of five to creating a truly lifelong learning system to help people reskill and retrain as they're living longer and working longer.

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.