Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

I know what poverty is.

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

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

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

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

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

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Why should there be such abject poverty?

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

Living in Flint, poverty is an obstacle that you have to fight through. I always had to fend for my brother and sister - I was always the one to sacrifice my meals so that they could eat.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I've lived in poverty.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

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.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

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 evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.