Eric Garcetti Quotes

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Kids from poor families might be nicer, the might be happier, they might be more polite---but in countless ways, the manner in which they are raised puts them at a disadvantage in the measures that count in contemporary American society.

People blame themselves for their own layoffs…. We ignore the effect on mental health. Every person in this society who is laid off is told that they lack value…. We undermine public health.

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

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

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

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy