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
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. Kirk Douglas
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. Muhammad Yunus
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung. Rex Tillerson
Growing up in the Pico/Union barrio of downtown Los Angeles in the 1970's was to be born into abject poverty and violence. And even that fed into telling stories and finding ways of surviving. I can see now that I was always a playwright, I just didn't know or have the language for it then. Luis Alfaro