Grace Poe Quotes

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

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

An entire content of children growing up without any prospect but poverty.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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.

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

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.