Quotes tagged ‘Poverty’

“If you’ve been poor, you know what that feels like. You ashamed all the time. Feels like it’s your fault.”

— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com

“Today, nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty and tonight, 500,000 people will be sleeping out on the streets. About half of the country lives paycheck to paycheck as tens of millions of our people are an accident, a divorce, a sickness or a layoff away from economic devastation.”

— Bernie Sanders, vox.com

“The images of poverty that you're about to see may be disturbing to your first world senses.”

— Rob Klein, Bill Hader, Duffy Boudreau, John Sachs , Bill Hader, imdb.com

“As a child growing up in poverty, I witnessed how my community consistently prioritize boys over girls in education because they felt boys had more chances to get job opportunities. These experiences made me want to write a story that decisively validates the value of giving educational opportunitie…”

— Tererai Trent, tereraitrent.org

“The Democrat that is a real Democrat, the Democrat that says, ‘Look, you’re a working-class citizen, and I respect you. I’m going to do everything in my power to protect you. I’m going to do everything in my power to fight to make sure you have a seat at the table.’ This is the blueprint. This is th…”

— Richard Ojeda, politico.com

“Michael Oher: It's nice, I never had one before. Leigh Anne Touhy: What, a room to yourself? Michael Oher: A bed.”

— John Lee Hancock, Michael "Big Mike" Oher, Quinton Aaron, imdb.com

“We have come far on our American journey since that early Thanksgiving. In the intervening years, we have lived through times of war and peace, years of poverty and plenty, and seasons of social and political upheaval that have shaped and forever changed our national character and experience. As we…”

— Bill Clinton, theholidayspot.com

“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”

— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com

“[about Bob Cratchit] Fifteen shillings a week, a wife and five children... and he still talks of a Merry Christmas!”

— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com

“Nephew Fred: A merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer! God save you. Ebenezer Scrooge: God save me from Christmas. It's another humbug. Nephew Fred: Christmas a humbug? Come, now. I'm sure you don't mean that. Ebenezer Scrooge: And I'm sure that I do mean that. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you…”

— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com

“How shall I ever understand this world? There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty, and yet, there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.”

— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com

“Ghost and Tasha have everything. Taking my kid over there is like giving him a day pass to Disneyland, and then bringing him back to this? We ain't ever gonna live like that. I got to settle for her hand-me-downs. Everything I have used to be Tasha's.”

— Safia M. Dirie, LaKeisha Grant, La La Anthony, imdb.com

“Kenny's family is so poor that yesterday they had to put their cardboard box up for a second mortgage!”

— Philip Stark, Matt Stone, Eric Cartman, Trey Parker, imdb.com

“Why? How could you do this? There are people starving in Alabama! And you give Cartman a million dollars?!”

— Trey Parker, Kyle Broflovski, Matt Stone, imdb.com

“I shall penetrate so far as to reach the village and see or speak with the king, who, as they tell us, governs all these islands, and goes dressed, with a great deal of gold about him. I do not, however, give much credit to these accounts, as I understand the natives but imperfectly, and perceive th…”

— Christopher Columbus, sourcebooks.fordham.edu

“It’s a lifelong dream. Imagine me as a ten-year-old saying I want to make 3D animation and then I’m in a store with my immigrant parents, we grew up in poverty, and I point at this $800 box. How does he even fathom what 3D animation is as it’s a new genre in the 1990s and that I’ll be able to do it…”

— Monty Oum, fanboynation.com

“When the rich begin to sigh, the poor have something to cook because the rich give alms when they are ill or sad.”

— Yiddish Proverbs, archive.org

“While poverty is no excuse for violence, let us remember, too, that violence is no excuse for indifference to poverty.”

— Pat Brown, latimes.com

“This legislation alone will not bring an end to the ghetto—but it will provide the opportunity for those persons economically able to escape the ghetto to do so, and to take their families with them. It will assure them free choice in the selection of their housing. For those still condemned by pove…”

— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu

“The image of the tumbledown slatboard shack in the rural South has been replaced by what is to my mind an even more regrettable, more terrible alternative—the filthy, freezing urban slum tenement. Added to the monumental problem of poverty in the cities is the totally related problem of segregated h…”

— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu