Community Quote by Holly Near

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People…

— Wiz Khalifa

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible…

— Pete Townshend

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

— Viola Davis

“Certain leaders and politicians intentionally maintain conditions of poverty and hardship to secure their own power. Instead of implementing lasting solutions, they exploit people’s…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

A lot of our social ills are directly related to poverty, not that people of higher status don't have problems, but they have resources.

— Ashley Biden

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being…

— Orhan Pamuk

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When…

— Hans Rosling

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

— Blase J. Cupich

“Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through the cracks?…

— Bill Moyers

I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise…

— James Nachtwey

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

— Priyanka Chopra