Poverty Quotes

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.