Loretta Lynn Quotes

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

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Money can't buy poverty.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.