Harry Belafonte Quotes

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

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

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.