Common Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally…

— Sasha Abramsky

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

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

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

— Dhanush

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

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,…

— Harry Belafonte

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…

— Sherman Alexie

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston