Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.