Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis
Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country. — Vicente Fox
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she… — Jennifer Garner
Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived… — John Garamendi
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… — Sherman Alexie
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. — Alberto Fujimori
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. — Tom Lehrer
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls. — Glenn Frey
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure… — Mark Foley
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need… — Ernie Fletcher
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. — Pam Grier
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. — Mike Huckabee
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment. — Abdallah II
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be… — Steve Israel
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically… — Steve Israel
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of… — Leslie Jamison
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through… — Leslie Jamison
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for… — Leslie Jamison
I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford… — John Dramani Mahama
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. — Victor Hugo
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way. — Vinod Khosla
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want… — Tom Waits

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