Angela Rayner Quotes

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

An entire content of children growing up without any prospect but poverty.

Poverty demoralizes.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

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.