#abject

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

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

— Kirk Douglas

#came #go #i #i came #nowhere

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave