Eve Arnold Quotes

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.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

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

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

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into 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.

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

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.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.