Decimus Junius Juvenal Quotes

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

I don't come from a privileged background.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Poverty is slavery.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

The great mass of the poor in countries are become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to get out of that state of themselves

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.