- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty Quotes
On hardship, pretense, and the thin line between struggle and ruin.
These quotes describe poverty as something felt rather than just discussed—its nearness to wealth in some places, the pretense people keep up to hide it, and the social programs built to hold it back. See our poverty slogans for another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban'gladesh and I - just a child then - was sent off to live in my uncle's house in Calcutta.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried about the people living in poverty.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020