Disadvantaged Youth Quotes

The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

Most teachers prefer to teach highly motivated kids who live in safe communities.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.

My passion is kids, more than just kids is underprivileged kids and orphans.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

These children are unfortunate rather than criminal. Their delinquency is not the product of nature but rather the cruel circumstances into which they were born.

I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm sure he will say this about other communities as well - who live in violence, who are subject of that, or who do not have the educational opportunities that every child in this country should have so they can reach their fullest potential, that that's unacceptable.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

There are young people all over the country who don’t always have the helping hand, the second chance that I had.

Coming from the projects, we used to sneak into the United Center, watch some games; they chased us out and everything.

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.