Poverty Quotes

• 'Poverty' Pitt exclaimed 'is no disgrace but it is damned annoying.' In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Poverty
  • Annoying

• What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • Up
  • Poverty
  • Petty

• It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.

  

  Kate Richards O'Hare
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Fighting

• If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Nature
  • Pretty
  • Poverty

• Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Different
  • Education
  • Law

• If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty

• If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Different
  • Book
  • Poverty

• It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Law

• We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

  

  Herodotus
  • Poverty
  • Gods
  • Island

• I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • People
  • Time
  • Poverty

• As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • Poverty

• When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Poetry
  • Poverty
  • Predicament

• Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

  

  Alden Nowlan
  • American
  • Poverty

• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Community

• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Age
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Freedom
  • Poverty

• Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Poverty

• There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Money
  • War
  • War On Poverty

• Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • American
  • Poverty
  • Safety

• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Passion
  • Poverty
  • Revenge

• We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Long
  • Help

• A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

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