#pov

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#factor #greatest #life #motivating #my life

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#came #go #i #i came #nowhere

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#i #money #one thing #only #options

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#almost #educated #education #every #fundamental

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#down #end #government #i #instead

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#age #any #black #black or white #cuts