2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Anyway, they went and built this silly housing project, with us living right across the street from it. Some of the children from the housing project got into trouble. You can't just take people who don't have anything, don't know what they're doing, pack them in a bunch of buildings, and expect it's going to all work out somehow.- Sadie

An investment in your country’s education pays the best interest.

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

When you hear her say,'What else can an old woman doon hills as wretched as these?'You look right at the sky,Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes.And you look onthe cracks that begin around her eyesspread beyond her skinAnd the hills crack.And the temples crack.And the sky falls with a plateglass clatter around the shatter proof cronewho stands alone.And you are reducedto so much small changein her hand.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.