Nuseir Yassin Quotes

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty is slavery.

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

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

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.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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 is the parent of revolution.

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

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.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

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.

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

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

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

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

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.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.