Quotes About Struggle

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.

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.

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.

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

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.