Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

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

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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

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

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

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

Poverty makes you work really hard.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I believe Colorado needs representation from a conservative who has worked his way through the types of obstacles with which nearly all middle-class and lower-income people struggle.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

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

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

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