#overt

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

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#beyond #care #culture #education #extends

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#because #childhood #country #disgusting #forgotten

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#behavioral #biological #children #dads #did

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#better #child #committed #countries #demand

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#buy #dad #doing #gave #god

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#country #crime #direct #educated #effect

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ↗

— Henry Ford

#capital punishment #charity #crime #cure #fundamentally

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create