Poverty Quotes

O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

Frank McCourt
- People
- Writing
- Mother
[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

Barack Obama
- Believe
- Children
- Ideas

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Alex Cox
- Real
- Imagination
- Poverty
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H. L. Mencken
- Ideas
- Punishment
- Dubious
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

John A. Powell
- Live
- Poverty
It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

Jo Cox
- Money
- Poverty
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

J. G. Holland
- Men
- Poverty
- Adversity
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Eugene O'Neill
- Child
- Birth
- Diseased