Kaka Quotes

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

But like everyone else I've come to the sad realisation food banks are an all-too-common feature on the streets of Britain.

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

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

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

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

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

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

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

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.