David Crockett Quotes

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

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

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

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

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

More than a billion people in the world live in slums today, roughly one out of every three inhabitants of cities.

No city in Italy contains so many miserable beggars, and no town in the world so many blind.

If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

A population sodden with drink, steeped in vice, eaten up by every social and physical malady, these are the denizens of darkest England ... the submerged tenth: Is it then beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live.

Poverty demoralizes.

Poverty causes crime.

All being poor, the only food they use is the cheapest jn the country—potatoes.

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

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

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.