2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

In a lot of ways, these communities are success stories. They are some of the most healthy, stable and vital municipalities in the country. But there are significant warning signs. Poverty is one of those.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Broke is normal. Why be normal?