Zozibini Tunzi Quotes

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Because of the British Welfare State …, I was never hungry…. The schools I attended were free and actually acted as ladders of mobility for those randomly given the skills in the genetic lottery of life to climb them.

The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them in their present state.

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.

This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

Our core attention is to bring prosperity in the life of common man, and all-out resources have been used for his facilitation.

If I could help every ghetto, I would.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.

Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives.

I was brought up working class in east London with my own thoughts and my own beliefs and, when I began playing, I got involved in charity work and expanded those beliefs.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.