Poverty Issue Quotes

Allowing slavery will starve the poor white laborer.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

The balance of our population, our human stock is threatened. A recent article in Poverty, published by the Child Poverty Action Group, showed that a high and rising proportion of children are being born to mothers least fitted to bring children into the world and to bring them up.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Adult diapers have outsold baby diapers in Japan for the last six years, and many jails are turning into de facto nursing homes, as Japanese elders account for 20% of all crime in the country. With no one else to care for them, many reoffend just to come back. Stealing a sandwich can mean two years of jail time, but it also means two years of free housing and meals.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

What's a soup kitchen?