Desire Quote by Anonymous

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

— Julius Nyerere

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently…

— Elsa Maxwell

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

— Ray LaMontagne

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

— Chris Van Hollen

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

When I went to school, most parents wanted their children to get good A-levels, to go to university, and get a degree so your…

— Theo Paphitis

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

— Kemi Badenoch

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the…

— Matthew Desmond

Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

— Chris Grayling

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

— Blase J. Cupich