Hill Harper Quotes

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

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 doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Poverty leads to protests.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

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.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.