Robert Kennedy Quotes

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty demoralizes.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Poverty causes crime.

The chaos of poverty feeds on itself.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

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

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

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