A Quote by Stephanie Land

I didn't grow up in systemic poverty.

Stephanie Land

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Stephanie Land
American - Author
Born: 1978

The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

Dambisa Moyo

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all that.

Stephanie Land

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Mohsin Hamid

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Ray LaMontagne

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

Cristela Alonzo

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Viola Davis

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

Jimmy Barnes

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

Arnel Pineda

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

Jon Ronson

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

Keke Palmer

Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.

Cris Carter

To me, the only way we'll see a collective change in this country is by listening to people who have experienced life in the margins of society, who have lived less privileged versions of my story, in systemic poverty and facing structural racism.

Stephanie Land

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

Freddie Gibbs

I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is rooted in gender bias. It is violence. It is trauma. It is a crime. But, most importantly, it is our policy choice.

Jamaal Bowman

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.