Brother Quote by Claressa Shields

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems…

— Matt Damon

“Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more…

— Keith Ferrazzi

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I've lived in poverty.

— London Breed

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern.…

— Wayne Dyer

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

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…

— Jimmy Barnes