Ann Cotton Quotes

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

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

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

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

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

Poverty is slavery.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

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

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.