Poverty Quotes

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in orde...

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-asse...

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the admini...

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Fa...

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy ...

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not ...

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one ...

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2...

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a ...

No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a c...

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significan...

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and internati...

A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is ...

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. Al...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of sho...

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So m...

Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drif...

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- ...

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent ...

A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been rivete...

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night t...

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. T...

No baggage - there was the secret of existence.

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they...

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid ...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and sol...

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths e...

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled li...

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two ...

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places on...

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own sa...

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public chariti...

And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, ever...

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with ...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete...

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or do...

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the...

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and incon...

O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good...

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had...

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

External explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to ma...

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to ...

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true ope...

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who ea...

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you...

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world bec...

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like s...

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billio...

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as b...

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the facti...

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most falle...

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my sh...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet...

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosio...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...