2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Los pobres nunca salimos de pobres, pero a veces eso también nos mantiene a flote.

Y no olvide lo peor: que este país es la hostia, y nosotros, usted,yo, tendremos que espabilarnos igual. El enemigo del pueblo es siempre el poder.

A poor man is a living dead one.

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.

Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the benefit of such people as those; and may heap up facts on figures, facts on figures, facts on figures, mountains high and dry; and he can no more hope to persuade ’em that they have no right or business to be married, than he can hope to persuade ’em that they have no earthly right or business to be born. And that we know they haven’t. We reduced it to a mathematical certainty long ago!

I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can’t even afford shame and I wait

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.