Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Complaint is poverty.

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

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

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

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

I just hated poverty.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

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

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Poverty is slavery.