Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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.

I know what poverty is.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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

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

Poverty causes crime.

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Complaint is poverty.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

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

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.