Poverty Quotes

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.