Poverty

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
Alex Cox
Imagination
Corporations
Poverty
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Humor
Laughter
Poverty
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
Family
Fact
Poverty
Wage
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
Carlo Collodi
Boys
Poverty
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton
Education
People
Opportunity
Freedom
Help
Information
Poverty
Today
Want
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Forget
Poor
Poverty
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
Joan Chen
Hunger
Kids
Poor
Poverty
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
People
Poverty
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
People
Luxury
Poverty
Vulgarity
We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
Robert Casey
Women
Abortion
Children
Poverty
Years
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
Equality
Parenting
Women
Abortion
Abuse
Independence
Poverty
Problems
Solution
Today
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey
Life
Obscurity
Old
Poverty
Trade
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
Jim Carrey
Family
Work
Job
Poverty
Security
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Beauty
Travel
Athens
Europe
Poverty
Sisters
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell
Design
Poverty
Statistics
Unemployment