Lucas Neff Quotes

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

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you're in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

Complaint is poverty.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Economy, the poor man's mint.