Letitia James Quotes

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

I've lived in poverty.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

When catastrophic illness wipes out a middle class family's income, they come to the government for help and they come in a hurry.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.