Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

I just hated poverty.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

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

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Complaint is poverty.

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

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 not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

Poverty demoralizes.

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

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

The chaos of poverty feeds on itself.