Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Quotes

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

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

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

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

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We should remember the poor.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.