Poverty Quote by Rodolfo Gonzalez Lebrero

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it…

— Jon Connor

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,…

— Edward Young

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to…

— Katherine Boo

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

— Hans Kung