Go Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a…

— Kumi Naidoo

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

— Kevin de Leon

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…

— Tom Waits

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is…

— Dorothy Day

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

— Ronald Reagan

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

— Walter Lippmann

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and…

— Katherine Boo