Corrine Brown Quotes

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

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

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

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.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Money can't buy poverty.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

Poverty in America wears a diaper much more often than it wears a hearing aid. Money desperately needed by poor kids is going to rich elderly.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.